From: "Tvrtko A. =?iso-8859-2?q?Ur=B9ulin?=" <tvrtko@croadria.com>
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To: "Yury V. Umanets" <umka@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: About Replaceable OOM Killer
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:15:12 +0100
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On Thursday 04 March 2004 13:29, Yury V. Umanets wrote:
> 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.

No, I don't think userspace is a good idea.

On the other hand... I have updated the MOOM patch in sync with 2.4.25, you 
can get it at http://linux.ursulin.net or from LKML.

Any comments, bug reports, etc are welcomed!

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Tvrtko A. Ur?ulin, Linux admin 
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