Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262166AbTHaOMP (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:12:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262255AbTHaOMP (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:12:15 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:63673 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262166AbTHaOLE (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:11:04 -0400 Subject: Re: Andrea VM changes From: Alan Cox To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Mike Fedyk , Antonio Vargas , lkml , Marc-Christian Petersen In-Reply-To: <20030830231904.GL24409@dualathlon.random> References: <20030830231904.GL24409@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1062339003.10208.1.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-4) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:10:04 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 15 On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 00:19, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I've an algorithm that will work, and that will provide very good > guarantees to kill the "best" task to make the machine usable again, > with the needed protection against the security DoSes, but it's in > no-way similar to the current oom killer. And -ac has trivial code so you can avoid OOM killing every happening, which is pretty much essential for big servers. Perhaps merging that as well would be a good idea. - 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/