From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@linuxpower.cx>
To: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Revised memory-management stuff (was: OOM killer)
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 03:33:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010401033314.A11443@xi.linuxpower.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l03130300b6ec6062bf7d@[192.168.239.105]>
In-Reply-To: <l03130300b6ec6062bf7d@[192.168.239.105]>; from chromi@cyberspace.org on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:03:28PM -0800
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:03:28PM -0800, Jonathan Morton wrote:
[snip]
> Issue 3:
> The OOM killer was frequently killing the "wrong" process. I have
> developed an improved badness selector, and devised a possible means of
> specifying "don't touch" PIDs at runtime. PID 1 is never selected for
> killing. I am debating whether to allow selection of *any* process
> labelled "init" and running as root for the chop, since one of the "unusual
> but frequently encountered" scenarios is for a second init to be running
> during an install or recovery procedure. This might make it's way in as an
> optional feature.
IO/memory direct hardware access capability holding processes should be at
the bottom of the list.
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2001-04-01 6:03 Jonathan Morton
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