Re: [PATCH 4/5] oom: don't kill random process

[Minchan Kim]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:09 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hmm, If I understand your code correctly, unprivileged process can get
>>>> a score 1 by 3% bonus.
>>>
>>> 3% bonus is for privileged process. :)
>>
>> OMG. Typo.
>> Anyway, my point is following as.
>> If chose_point is 1, it means root bonus is rather big. Right?
>> If is is, your patch does second loop with completely ignore of bonus
>> for root privileged process.
>> My point is that let's not ignore bonus completely. Instead of it,
>> let's recalculate 1.5% for example.
>
> 1) unpriviledged process can't get score 1 (because at least a process need one
> Â anon, one file and two or more ptes).
> 2) then, score=1 mean all processes in the system are privileged. thus decay won't help.
>
> IOW, never happen privileged and unprivileged score in this case.

I am blind. Thanks for open my eyes, KOSAKI.


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Minchan Kim
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