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

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Message-ID: <30255.1231889165@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:26:05 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:54:08 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov said:

> Who should adjust the scores for newly created processes? Who should
> check that processes in the first group have negative oom ajustment and
> in the second group a positive value? Who determines when its time to
> ajust the scores?

Are you saying that you, as the box's administrator, don't know the answers
to those questions?

Or are you asking what the actual method of implementation is - which process
is supposed to write to (possibly some other process) oom_adjust, and when?

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