linux-kernel - Re: Improving OOM killer

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Message-Id: <201002050835.30550.oliver@neukum.org>
Date:	Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:35:30 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@...e.cz>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: Improving OOM killer

Am Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010 22:39:08 schrieb David Rientjes:
> > If we really want kernel to detect forkbombs (*), we'd have to establish 
> > completely separate infrastructure for that (with its own knobs for tuning 
> > and possibilities of disabling it completely).
> > 
> 
> That's what we're trying to do, we can look at the shear number of 
> children that the parent has forked and check for it to be over a certain 
> "forkbombing threshold" (which, yes, can be tuned from userspace), the 
> uptime of those children, their resident set size, etc., to attempt to 
> find a sane heuristic that penalizes them.

Wouldn't it be saner to have a selection by user, so that users that
are over the overcommit limit are targeted?

	Regards
		Oliver
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