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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:36:54 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu 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, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:26:05PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) wrote: > 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? Unfortunately I do not know the answers. Since all parameters are highly dynamic and can not be always automatically tuned. And we do not have a daemon to watch created processes. And in the general case we can not change the application. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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