Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753388Ab0A3RpL (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:45:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752996Ab0A3RpJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:45:09 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:51596 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751808Ab0A3RpI (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:45:08 -0500 Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:45:16 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: vedran.furac@gmail.com Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Andrew Morton , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , rientjes@google.com, minchan.kim@gmail.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling Message-ID: <20100130174516.2257d7fa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B646CBE.6050404@gmail.com> References: <20100121145905.84a362bb.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100122152332.750f50d9.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100125151503.49060e74.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100126151202.75bd9347.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100127085355.f5306e78.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100126161952.ee267d1c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100127095812.d7493a8f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100128001636.2026a6bc@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B622AEE.3080906@gmail.com> <20100129003547.521a1da9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B62327F.3010208@gmail.com> <20100129110321.564cb866@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B64272D.8020509@gmail.com> <20100130125917.600beb51@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B646CBE.6050404@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.18.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 23 > I can't say I'm able to correctly read kernel code, but I believe > default is set by: It['s set by the distribution - the kerne has a default value but given the same distributions are shipping the crap userspace that breaks with no-overcommit do you think they'll set it to break their user apps ? No. > http://vedranf.net/tmp/oom.ogv (you can watch it using VLC for example) > > Actually anyone receiving this mail should see it. What do you think, > what will customers rather choose if they see this? Address that to the distributions. Their customers. Systems I set up for people always have no overcommit enabled. Alan -- 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/