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Message-ID: <4B622AEE.3080906@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:25:18 +0100 From: Vedran Furač <vedran.furac@...il.com> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>, rientjes@...gle.com, minchan.kim@...il.com, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling Alan Cox wrote: > Am I missing something fundamental here ? Yes, the fact linux mm currently sucks. How else would you explain possibility of killing random (often root owned) processes using a 5 lines program started by an ordinary user? Killed process could be an apache web server or X server on a desktop. I demonstrated this flaw few months ago here and only Kame tried to find a way to fix it but encountered noncooperation. I don't know what to say, really. Sad... Actually funny, when you know that competition OS, often ridiculed by linux users, doesn't suffer any consequences when that same 5 line program is run. Regards, Vedran -- http://vedranf.net | a8e7a7783ca0d460fee090cc584adc12 -- 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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