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SubjectRe: 2.5.74-mm3 OOM killer fubared ?
In article <20030710155643.GY15452@holomorphy.com>, William Lee Irwin III  <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> That's not what it's supposed to do. The thought behind it is that since
>> out_of_memory()'s count is not reset unless it's been 5s since the last
>> time this was ever invoked, it will happen on a regular basis after the
>> first kill if it is invoked regularly. It's actually a bit too late,
>> since something's already been killed, but it should make a larger
>> difference than merely altering the rate.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:05:37PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Well, that won't help in my case, as my problem is not that many
> processes are killed - it's just that every few minutes (sometimes
> 3 minutes, sometimes 30, sometimes an hour) an innocent process
> gets killed (just one) with 2.5.74-mm3. And that did not happen
> with 2.5.74 or 2.5.72-mm2

Okay, it won't help your case, then. I've had this improvement to its
heuristics on the back burner for a while but haven't gone so far as
to dig up a case it directly benefits. It's small enough I'll think
about it later.


-- wli
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