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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:52:38 +0100
From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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Subject: Re: Looking for better VM
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1001108172338.7153A-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>; from mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:36:40PM +0100
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:36:40PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> BTW. Why does your OOM killer in 2.4 try to kill process that mmaped most
> memory? mmap is hamrless. mmap on files can't eat memory and swap.

Don't complain, build your own and test it ;-)

Apply my patch

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

and install your own OOM handler using install_oom_killer() 
from <linux/swap.h>. It has all the needed documentation inline
that will be build along the kernel-api-book.

Have fun researching in this area.

PS: Applies cleanly since oom_kill.c exists and also against
   2.4.0-test11-pre1.

Regards

Ingo Oeser
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