Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Sat, 06 Nov 2004 00:47:36 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 15:32 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Friday, November 05, 2004 12:01 pm, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Comments? > > Sounds good, though we may want to do a couple of more things, we shouldn't > kill root tasks quite as easily and we should avoid zombies since they may be > large apps in the process of exiting, and killing them would be bad (iirc > it'll cause a panic). >
Yep, it makes sense, but it still does not fix the selection problem, where e.g. sshd is killed while a out of control forking server floods the machine with child processes.
Patch to address this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109922680000746&w=2
tglx
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