Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263619AbTE0TJS (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 15:09:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263718AbTE0TJS (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 15:09:18 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:21737 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263619AbTE0TJR (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 15:09:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:20:44 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Marc-Christian Petersen Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-rc4] Fix oom killer braindamage Message-ID: <20030527192044.GP8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Marc-Christian Petersen , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200305272104.05802.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305272104.05802.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 854 Lines: 22 On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:05:45PM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > attached patch fixes the oom killer braindamage where it tries to kill > processes again and again and again w/o any ending or successfull killing of > the selected processes in an OOM case. > The attached, very simple but effective, patch fixes it. > All the kudos go to Rik van Riel. > Patch tested and works, and also for a long time in my tree (and maybe also > others?!) > This issue is out there for several years. > Please consider it for 2.4.21-rc5, thanks. > ciao, Marc Also in 2.5.x for some time. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/