linux-kernel - Re: [Question] how to detect mm leaker and kill?

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Date:	Fri, 6 May 2011 15:48:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [Question] how to detect mm leaker and kill?

On Fri, 6 May 2011, Hillf Danton wrote:

> Hi
> 
> In the scenario that 2GB  physical RAM is available, and there is a
> database application that eats 1.4GB RAM without leakage already
> running, another leaker who leaks 4KB an hour is also running, could
> the leaker be detected and killed in mm/oom_kill.c with default
> configure when oom happens?
> 

Yes, if you know the database application is going to use 70% of your 
system RAM and you wish to discount that from its memory use when being 
considered for oom kill, set its /proc/pid/oom_score_adj to -700.

This is only possible on 2.6.36 and later kernels when oom_score_adj was 
introduced.

If you'd like to completely disable oom killing, set 
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj to -1000.
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