Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756490AbZALVa0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:30:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753291AbZALVaN (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:30:13 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:33429 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752944AbZALVaM (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:30:12 -0500 Message-ID: <496BB626.9090208@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:29:10 -0500 From: Chris Snook User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evgeniy Polyakov CC: Alan Cox , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard! References: <20090112153304.GA19995@ioremap.net> <20090112154456.GA27269@redhat.com> <20090112154827.GB20743@ioremap.net> <20090112155108.2646b3ae@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090112155211.GA21161@ioremap.net> In-Reply-To: <20090112155211.GA21161@ioremap.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 19 Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 03:51:08PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: >>> Well, Kenny has to die, but if we still decide to change the world, here >>> is the fist step. >> NAK this entire thing - we have an existing interface that does the job >> far better. > > Modulo the fact that it does not work for the quickly created processes > which do not have their oom scores adjusted before the oom. > cgroups solve this problem much more cleanly. -- Chris -- 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/