Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263893AbTKZCBL (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:01:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263895AbTKZCBL (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:01:11 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:27324 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263893AbTKZCBJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:01:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:01:03 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Mike Fedyk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.23-rc5 Message-ID: <20031126020103.GD8039@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Marcelo Tosatti , Mike Fedyk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031125190442.GB1357@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.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: 921 Lines: 22 On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote: >> Will 2.4.23 have the oom killer? On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:06:31PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > 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. Some of the bad behavior was due to races that disturbed the heuristics. 2.6 got those fixed and it made a large difference wrt. correcting its bad behaviors. It's not infallible, but relatively well-behaved. (Not that I could be arsed to debate whether that makes it worth keeping.) -- 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/