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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:53:57 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> Uptime of a process is a much better mesaure for a killing
> candidate then it's size.

You'll have fun with your root shell, then  ;)

The current OOM code takes things like uptime, used cpu, size
and a bunch of other things into account.

If it turns out that the code is not attaching a proper weight
to some of these factors, you should be sending patches, not
flames.

(the code is full of comments, so it should be easy enough to
find your way around the code and tweak it until it does the
right thing in a number of test cases)

regards,

Rik
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