Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751126AbWHXLWG (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:22:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751130AbWHXLWF (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:22:05 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:35267 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751126AbWHXLWD (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:22:03 -0400 Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH] prevent from killing OOM disabled task in do_page_fault() From: Alan Cox To: "Abu M. Muttalib" Cc: Akinobu Mita , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:43:14 +0100 Message-Id: <1156419794.3007.99.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 19 Ar Iau, 2006-08-24 am 15:43 +0530, ysgrifennodd Abu M. Muttalib: > Hi, > > > The process protected from oom-killer may be killed when do_page_fault() > > runs out of memory. This patch skips those processes as well as init task. > > Do we have any patch set to disable OOM all together for linux kernel > 2.6.13? No, its run tme configurable as is selection priority of the processes which you want killed, has been for some time. Alan - 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/