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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:56:30 +0700 From: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@...il.com> To: Ryan Wang <openspace.wang@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, kernelnewbies@...linux.org Subject: Re: oom killer and long-waiting processes Hi On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 14:17, Ryan Wang <openspace.wang@...il.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have one question about oom killer: > If many processes dealing with network communications, > but due to bad network traffic, the processes have to wait > for a very long time. And meanwhile they may consume > some memeory separately for computation. The number > of such processes may be large. Please refer to my article here : http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html Right now, I can not recall entirely about the rules, but IIRC the processes that do I/O get lower "score". But that doesn't mean it won't be killed if free memory amount is really low... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com -- 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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