Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262453AbUKRPOX (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:14:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262429AbUKRPMh (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:12:37 -0500 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:41386 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262405AbUKRPKf (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:10:35 -0500 Message-ID: <419CBB4A.2020207@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:10:02 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tglx@linutronix.de CC: Werner Almesberger , Chris Ross , Andrea Arcangeli , Jesse Barnes , Marcelo Tosatti , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage References: <20041105200118.GA20321@logos.cnet> <200411051532.51150.jbarnes@sgi.com> <20041106012018.GT8229@dualathlon.random> <1099706150.2810.147.camel@thomas> <20041117195417.A3289@almesberger.net> <419BDE53.1030003@tebibyte.org> <20041117210410.R28844@almesberger.net> <419BECB0.70801@tebibyte.org> <20041117221419.S28844@almesberger.net> <419C5B45.2080100@tebibyte.org> <20041118070137.T28844@almesberger.net> <1100789078.2635.73.camel@thomas> In-Reply-To: <1100789078.2635.73.camel@thomas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 17 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Hmm, what about embedded boxes without swap ? There you have only one > choice. Kill anything appropriate. I worked on a project that took the opposite approach from the "I'm a suspect" flag mentioned earlier. Processes could request immunity from the OOM killer as long as they were under a specified memory usage. Critical apps were thus protected as long as they were sane, while noncritical stuff could be killed at will. Chris - 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/