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

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:24:35 -0500
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
CC:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.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:
> So effectively oom_adj only works as enable/disable switch, and since no
> one knows how to tune it, it is better to do not touch at all. And get
> ssh killed. I believe if it is ever used then only to disable oom at
> all, which is wrong, since task still may be killed but after some
> others. My patch adds a simple priority for that based on the name of
> the process, which are known to the administrators who maintain given
> system.
>
>   
If nothing else, this would seem to reduce the number of processes for 
which the OOM coefficient of evil must be calculated.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
  "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still
  be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark 


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