Subject: Re: User space out of memory approach
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de
To: Edjard Souza Mota <edjard@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
       Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
       Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:39:53 +0100
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On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 12:05 +0200, Edjard Souza Mota wrote:

> Yes, agreed. Our point was just to re-organize current OOM killer to release the
> kernel from doing rating, which is not its task any way.

It is a kernel task and will always be a kernel task. The kernel manages
memory resources and therefor is the place which is responsible to solve
the oom situation.

The userland daemon or what ever can only be a add on to give a hint for
the final decision.

tglx


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