linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling

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Message-ID: <4B6477C7.70508@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:17:43 +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:

>> http://vedranf.net/tmp/oom.ogv  (you can watch it using VLC for example)
>>
>> Actually anyone receiving this mail should see it. What do you think,
>> what will customers rather choose if they see this?
> 
> Address that to the distributions. Their customers. Systems I set up for
> people always have no overcommit enabled.

And distros say that's a bug in kernel. Result: nothing gets done and
users will continue to swear at linux after it kills their work...


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