Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761228AbZANJIL (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:08:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753969AbZANJHv (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:07:51 -0500 Received: from tservice.ru ([195.178.208.66]:54510 "EHLO tservice.net.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751531AbZANJHt (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:07:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:07:48 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: David Rientjes , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard! Message-ID: <20090114090747.GA22347@ioremap.net> References: <20090113085244.GA13796@ioremap.net> <20090113115408.GA22289@ioremap.net> <20090113121510.68a55fe9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090113122904.GC25011@ioremap.net> <20090113214627.GC27227@ioremap.net> <20090113233502.GA31490@ioremap.net> <6507.1231907037@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6507.1231907037@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1004 Lines: 23 On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote: > > I wonder how do you expect users to guess via libastral that even > > adjusted score does not work, since it happens that task is so special, > > that it can not be killed :) > > What does your patch do if one user has a process 'foo' that they're willing > to have die first, and a process 'bar' that absolutely can't be killed.. > > Meanwhile, another user has a 'must die first' process 'bar', and a 'must not > die' process 'foo'. > > Methinks your patch needs libastral as well? My patch needs an administrator to setup the name pattern. Undocumented magic deeply hidden in the calculus of the badness() is quite different. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- 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/