linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] oom_kill: use rss value instead of vm size for badness

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Message-ID: <4B0F31DB.6020009@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:56:43 +0100
From:	Vedran Furač <vedran.furac@...il.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_kill: use rss value instead of vm size for badness

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:10:12 +0100
> Vedran Furač <vedran.furac@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>>
>>> lengthy discussion on something I think is quite obviously better and
>>> I tried to change a couple of years back already (rss instead of
>>> total_vm).
>> Now that 2.6.32 is almost out, is it possible to get OOMK fixed in
>> 2.6.33 so that I could turn overcommit on (overcommit_memory=0) again
>> without fear of loosing my work?
>>
> I'll try fork-bomb detector again. That will finally help your X.org.
> But It may lose 2.6.33.
> 
> Adding new counter to mm_struct is now rejected because of scalability, so
> total work will need more time (than expected).
> I'm sorry I can't get enough time in these weeks.

Thanks for working on this! Hope it gets into 33. Keep me posted.

Regards,

Vedran


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