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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:44:33 +0100
From: Frank van Maarseveen <F.vanMaarseveen@inter.NL.net>
To: Chris Swiedler <chris.swiedler@sevista.com>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        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:
> 
> echo 1 516 > /proc/sys/vm/oom_protect
Hmm, I'd prefer "echo 1 >/proc/516/oom_protect". Guess that's
out of the question because only /proc/sys should be used for
setting parameters?

Then maybe /proc/sys/proc should be populated so we can do
"echo 1 >/proc/sys/proc/516/oom_protect".

-- 
Frank
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