Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269725AbTGKApc (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:45:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269726AbTGKApb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:45:31 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:25269 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269725AbTGKApX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:45:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:01:22 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm3 OOM killer fubared ? Message-ID: <20030711010122.GZ15452@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Miquel van Smoorenburg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030710112728.GX15452@holomorphy.com> <20030710155643.GY15452@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 1363 Lines: 27 In article <20030710155643.GY15452@holomorphy.com>, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> That's not what it's supposed to do. The thought behind it is that since >> out_of_memory()'s count is not reset unless it's been 5s since the last >> time this was ever invoked, it will happen on a regular basis after the >> first kill if it is invoked regularly. It's actually a bit too late, >> since something's already been killed, but it should make a larger >> difference than merely altering the rate. On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:05:37PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Well, that won't help in my case, as my problem is not that many > processes are killed - it's just that every few minutes (sometimes > 3 minutes, sometimes 30, sometimes an hour) an innocent process > gets killed (just one) with 2.5.74-mm3. And that did not happen > with 2.5.74 or 2.5.72-mm2 Okay, it won't help your case, then. I've had this improvement to its heuristics on the back burner for a while but haven't gone so far as to dig up a case it directly benefits. It's small enough I'll think about it later. -- 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/