Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:28:28 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, a1426z@gawab.com,
       jonathan@jonmasters.org, zlynx@acm.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6
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On Tue 2008-02-19 09:00:08, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Kosaki-san wrote:
> > Thank you for wonderful interestings comment.
> 
> You're most welcome.  The pleasure is all mine.
> 
> > you think kill the process just after swap, right?
> > but unfortunately, almost user hope receive notification before swap ;-)
> > because avoid swap.
> 
> There is not much my customers HPC jobs can do with notification before
> swap.  Their jobs either have the main memory they need to perform the
> requested calculations with the desired performance, or their job is
> useless and should be killed.  Unlike the applications you describe,
> my customers jobs have no way, once running, to adapt to less
> memory.

Sounds like a job for memory limits (ulimit?), not for OOM
notification, right?
								Pavel

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