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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:18:01 -0800
From:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, arve@...gle.com
Cc:	San Mehat <san@...roid.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Robert Love <rlove@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lowmemory android driver not needed?


Looping in Arve who wrote the low memory killer and can explain things
in more detail.

Brian

[Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>]
> Hi San,
> 
> Alan Cox pointed me at the /proc/<pid>/oom_adj file that controls the
> oom-killer score for any process as being more than sufficent to control
> the oom killer.
> 
> This makes me wonder why you wrote the android lowmemlorykiller driver?
> 
> What is that driver for that is not already present in the existing
> oom_* values for every process?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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