Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932404AbWBHVD4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:03:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932409AbWBHVD4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:03:56 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:64141 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932404AbWBHVD4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:03:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:03:51 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Andi Kleen Cc: clameter@engr.sgi.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation Message-Id: <20060208130351.fc1c759c.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200602082201.12371.ak@suse.de> References: <20060208125521.b9a2aa5e.pj@sgi.com> <200602082201.12371.ak@suse.de> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.7 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 707 Lines: 19 > I don't think you really want to open a full scale "is the oom killer needed" > thread. Check the archives - there have been some going on for months. > > But I think we can agree that together with mbind the oom killer is pretty > useless, can't we? Excellent points. I approve this patch. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401 - 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/