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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 13:07:18 -0500 (EST)
From: David Mansfield <lkml@dm.cobite.com>
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To: Rik van Riel <riel@imladris.surriel.com>
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> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, David Mansfield wrote:
> 
> > Rik, any ideas?
> 
> You could try the patch I sent to Marc and linux-kernel
> yesterday afternoon ;)
> 

You miss my point completely.  The kernel has ALREADY chosen a task to 
kill.  I don't care to adjust the 'badness' function.  The kernel has 
already chosen a bad task.

If you read my post, the bug is that the kernel CANNOT kill that process?  
Why?  If it's really a bad process, shouldn't it be the one that gets 
killed? 

With you patch we have:

1) Kernel goes OOM
2) Kernel picks the worst task to kill using badness()
3) Kernel attempts to kill this task but fails due to some {reason|bug}.
4) Kernel now picks some other task to kill even though the 'baddest' one 
is allowed to hang out.

This is my question, and I don't see how the patch addresses it.

David



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