linux-kernel - Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

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Message-ID: <496BB626.9090208@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:29:10 -0500
From:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 03:51:08PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
>>> Well, Kenny has to die, but if we still decide to change the world, here
>>> is the fist step.
>> NAK this entire thing - we have an existing interface that does the job
>> far better.
> 
> Modulo the fact that it does not work for the quickly created processes
> which do not have their oom scores adjusted before the oom.
> 

cgroups solve this problem much more cleanly.

-- Chris
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