Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:01:22 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.74-mm3 OOM killer fubared ? |
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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.
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