Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:02:16 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Yury V. Umanets" <umka@namesys.com>
Cc: Tvrtko =?iso-8859-2?Q?A=2E_Ur=B9ulin?= <tvrtko@croadria.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Guo, Min" <min.guo@intel.com>,
       cgl_discussion@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: About Replaceable OOM Killer
Message-ID: <20040308110216.GD5352@openzaurus.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> > Though it hasn't been updated for a while because nobody cares...
> IMHO problem with OOM killer is that it always will do wrong choice. So,
> it should be either plugin based or allow to configure it and this
> means, that it will become more complex and buggy. Does not it mean,
> that OOM killer should be moved to user space?
> 
> How about to export OOM event to user space? It might be done in manner
> like hotplug script is used.

When you are OOM, you really can't exec userland script...

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