Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:53:19 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 22:19 +0100, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote: > > It should only kill RNAsubopt and bash and touch nothing else. > > Yes, that's true, this patch has helped. Actually the other xterm got > closed, but that's because bash is the controlling application of it. > I believe that's expected. > > I'd prefer to get only RNAsubopt killed. ;)
Ok. To kill only RNAsubopt it might be neccecary to refine the criteria in the whom to kill selection.
> And still, there weren't > that many changes to memory management between 2.6.9-rc1 and 2.6.9-rc2. ;) > I can test those VM changes separately, if someone would provide me with > those changes split into 2 or 3 patchsets.
The oom trouble was definitly not invented there. The change between 2.6.9-rc1 and rc2 is justs triggering your special testcase.
Other testcases show the problems with earlier 2.6 kernels too.
tglx
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