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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 21:47:52 +0100
From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Chris Swiedler <chris.swiedler@sevista.com>
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        Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] protect processes from OOM killer
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In-Reply-To: <NDBBIAJKLMMHOGKNMGFNMEADCPAA.chris.swiedler@sevista.com>; from chris.swiedler@sevista.com on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:19:37AM -0500
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On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:19:37AM -0500, Chris Swiedler wrote:
> Here's a small patch to allow a user to protect certain PIDs from death-
> by-OOM-killer. It uses the proc entry '/proc/sys/vm/oom_protect'; echo the
> PIDs to be protected:

Please base it upon my OOM-Killer-API patch.

        http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ioe/oom_kill_api.patch

This will reduce your patch to an simple module (but you have to
manage refcounting yourself!) and give the user a choice, which
one to use.

If someone provides an OOM-Handler himself, please use my API to
allow better testing and comparing.

PS: Of course it applies cleanly against test10 as well ;-)

Thanks and Regards

Ingo Oeser
-- 
To the systems programmer, users and applications
serve only to provide a test load.
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