linux-kernel - Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler

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Message-ID: <452F3694.70104@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:47:48 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler

Nick Piggin wrote:

> What I especially have in mind here is the OOM_DISABLE and 
> panic_on_oom sysctl
> rather than expecting particularly much better general oom killing 
> behaviour.
> Suppose you have a critical failover node or heartbeat process or 
> something
> where you'd rather the system to panic and reboot instead of doing 
> something
> silly...


Oh, I already said that.

Well anyway, I'm not sure exactly how people use these tunables, but I 
expect
those that do, _really_ want them to work.

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