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

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:07:48 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.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 11:23:57PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) wrote:
> > I wonder how do you expect users to guess via libastral that even
> > adjusted score does not work, since it happens that task is so special,
> > that it can not be killed :)
> 
> What does your patch do if one user has a process 'foo' that they're willing
> to have die first, and a process 'bar' that absolutely can't be killed..
> 
> Meanwhile, another user has a 'must die first' process 'bar', and a 'must not
> die' process 'foo'.
> 
> Methinks your patch needs libastral as well?

My patch needs an administrator to setup the name pattern.
Undocumented magic deeply hidden in the calculus of the badness() is quite different.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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