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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 -- 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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