Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:32:34 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: vedran.furac@gmail.com
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
       David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
       KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_kill: use rss value instead of vm size for badness
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:10:12 +0100
Vedran Furač <vedran.furac@gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> > lengthy discussion on something I think is quite obviously better and
> > I tried to change a couple of years back already (rss instead of
> > total_vm).
> 
> Now that 2.6.32 is almost out, is it possible to get OOMK fixed in
> 2.6.33 so that I could turn overcommit on (overcommit_memory=0) again
> without fear of loosing my work?
> 
I'll try fork-bomb detector again. That will finally help your X.org.
But It may lose 2.6.33.

Adding new counter to mm_struct is now rejected because of scalability, so
total work will need more time (than expected).
I'm sorry I can't get enough time in these weeks.

Thanks,
-Kame

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