From: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, arve@google.com
Cc: San Mehat <san@android.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Robert Love <rlove@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lowmemory android driver not needed?
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:18:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114021801.GA14759@bulgaria.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114010223.GA21380@kroah.com>
Looping in Arve who wrote the low memory killer and can explain things
in more detail.
Brian
[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]
> Hi San,
>
> Alan Cox pointed me at the /proc/<pid>/oom_adj file that controls the
> oom-killer score for any process as being more than sufficent to control
> the oom killer.
>
> This makes me wonder why you wrote the android lowmemlorykiller driver?
>
> What is that driver for that is not already present in the existing
> oom_* values for every process?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 1:02 Greg KH
2009-01-14 2:18 ` Brian Swetland [this message]
2009-01-14 2:30 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-14 3:52 ` Greg KH
2009-01-14 10:43 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-14 10:48 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-14 12:18 ` MinChan Kim
2009-01-14 22:26 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-14 23:17 ` Greg KH
2009-01-14 23:32 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-15 0:12 ` Greg KH
2009-01-15 0:54 ` [PATCH] Staging: android: Add lowmemorykiller documentation Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-15 0:59 ` Greg KH
2009-01-15 13:32 ` lowmemory android driver not needed? Trilok Soni
2009-01-15 23:44 ` Greg KH
2009-01-16 9:02 ` Paul Mundt
2009-01-16 11:16 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-16 15:23 ` Greg KH
2009-01-21 2:50 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-21 3:05 ` Paul Mundt
2009-01-21 3:29 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-04-01 18:38 ` Trilok Soni
2009-04-01 19:33 ` David Rientjes
2009-02-03 20:55 ` Tony Lindgren
2009-01-16 11:42 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-16 13:18 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-22 6:13 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-29 1:48 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-29 2:51 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-29 3:45 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-01-29 4:27 ` Greg KH
2009-01-29 4:43 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-29 4:59 ` Greg KH
2009-01-29 5:29 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-30 6:20 ` Greg KH
2009-01-30 6:41 ` Brian Swetland
2009-02-03 13:40 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-29 22:06 ` Pavel Machek
2009-02-03 14:08 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-15 7:55 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-14 6:45 ` MinChan Kim
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