Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262223AbTIMVzk (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:55:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262225AbTIMVzk (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:55:40 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:55570 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262223AbTIMVzj (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:55:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 00:04:01 +0200 To: Robert Love Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes Message-ID: <20030913220401.GA17528@hh.idb.hist.no> References: <200309120219.h8C2JANc004514@penguin.co.intel.com> <20030913174825.GB7404@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <1063476152.24473.30.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1063476152.24473.30.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Helge Hafting Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 22 On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:52:56PM -0400, Robert Love wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 13:48, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > Also, when the OOM condition is triggered I'd like the system to > > reboot, but first try for a short while to unmount filesystems cleanly. > > > > Any chance of those things? > > I like all of these ideas. > > One thing to keep in mind is that during a real OOM condition, we cannot > allocate _any_ memory. None. Zilch. > So a "complicated" oom handler need to preallocate all the memory it might ever need. Not impossible. Helge Hafting - 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/