Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756717AbZD0Nfv (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:35:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754215AbZD0Nfl (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:35:41 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f163.google.com ([209.85.218.163]:65088 "EHLO mail-bw0-f163.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752759AbZD0Nfl (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:35:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=NfJ0dsVh+leyzMEl6jFRU5/UKmNuTtqW61DL4yc9aU93AOC+EqMIoZEBHpBQZMzHNP HtKEB1bEz4ORnDbq9qRSrhUB+sToYkPM0cwxNs1h7mzLitpy79QQDqi1NPstoks/1JRR QOyQJQHbOi3dYMGliZxqaz6skSNry2SQaP0ws= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <40a4ed590904240309o66753264lf58f2910726f7efc@mail.gmail.com> <40a4ed590904241113p4949a020y46e0641e77f6f4e3@mail.gmail.com> <40a4ed590904241216u655300ddvaa4660e11ad2cffc@mail.gmail.com> <40a4ed590904250132o63e715cbvaccf5aac82265cd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:35:39 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: e685f91475ddb627 Message-ID: <407d949e0904270635p7f87e3c3jcb1db0e61d4ed11e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.29 runs out of memory and hangs. From: Greg Stark To: David Rientjes Cc: Zeno Davatz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Wyss Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 696 Lines: 13 On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:55 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > There is work being done on a per-cgroup lowmem notifier which would allow > userspace to poll() on a device file and be notified of low memory > situations so that it can react on its own (like killing a low priority > task, expanding a cpuset, increasing a memcontroller limit, etc.) Surely anything that important ought to be running with overcommit disabled anyways. -- 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/