Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263057AbTKYUUs (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:20:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263060AbTKYUUs (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:20:48 -0500 Received: from intra.cyclades.com ([64.186.161.6]:14750 "EHLO intra.cyclades.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263057AbTKYUUo (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:20:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:06:31 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@logos.cnet To: Mike Fedyk Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.23-rc5 In-Reply-To: <20031125190442.GB1357@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 31 On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:42:21AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Yet another thing showed up (possible data corruption on x86-64), so here > > goes -rc5. > > Sorry for not reading the entire 100+ message thread, but maybe someone can > answer anyway. > > Will 2.4.23 have the oom killer? No. Andrea removed the oom killer because it had problems (deadlocks, it can "guess" wrong in some cases). It seems that in most cases killing the allocator (what 2.4.23 does) works fine. Having it configurable might be desired. - 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/