linux-kernel - Re: OOM policy, overcommit control, and soft limits

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Date:	Sat, 31 May 2008 14:15:29 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Chris Frey <cdfrey@...rsquare.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM policy, overcommit control, and soft limits

> I'm sure someone has thought of this before me.  Does anything remotely
> similar to this already exist?  I've googled for OOM policy, but so far
> all I've seen is Rusty Lynch's patch from 2003, and really, I want this
> behaviour to happen when there is still a bit of memory left, so things
> can be dealt with before they are OOM-level dire.

Not that I am aware of. However you can set priorities on OOM killing
order and there is a patch from the XO people which seems to have
vanished into the darkness which added a nice memory pressure notifier so
apps could respond to memory shortages intelligently (eg by cleaning up)

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