From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Chris Ross <chris@tebibyte.org>,
Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac16
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:22:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103473331.27708.50.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C448BB.1020902@tmr.com>
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 10:11 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> As someone who runs most new versions first on a 96MB (slow) machine, I
> would agree that this is a desirable change. I'm not sure yet if the
> selection is optimal, but it's better than the stock kernel, which seems
> to follow the "kill them all, let god sort it out" principle.
The main fix IMHO is Andrea's correct solution of the invocation
including the removal of the evidential useless protection timers and
counters in out_of_memory().
The selection mechanism is now nearly matching the comment above badness
() much better: "this algorithm has been meticulously tuned to meet the
principle of least surprise ... (be careful when you change it)".
It can always be further optimized, but it will never meet the
expectation of all users
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-19 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-16 18:43 Alan Cox
2004-12-17 11:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-17 18:54 ` Francois Romieu
2004-12-17 13:08 ` Chris Ross
2004-12-17 14:51 ` Chris Friesen
2004-12-17 15:45 ` Chris Ross
2004-12-18 6:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-18 15:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-12-18 15:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-18 16:01 ` Chris Ross
2004-12-20 14:48 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-20 16:19 ` Chris Ross
2004-12-20 19:54 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-19 16:22 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2004-12-17 23:35 Chuck Ebbert
2004-12-20 17:27 ` Chris Friesen
2004-12-21 9:11 Chuck Ebbert
2004-12-21 23:49 Chuck Ebbert
2004-12-21 23:58 ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-22 2:49 ` Con Kolivas
2004-12-22 6:44 Chuck Ebbert
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