Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:22:02 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core) |
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On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 02:38:22PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Andrea provided a quite good fix for the invokation problem. I'm just > tracking down a different problem which was revieled by his changes. > > The selection mechanism is currently taking a couple of things into > account: > > - VM size > - nice value > - CPU time > - owner == root ? > - CAP_SYS_RAWIO > > I found out, that it is neccecary to take the child processes into > account to detect processes which fork a lot of childs. > > The current mechanism rather kills sshd or portmap as they happen to > have a bigger VM size than the process which forked a lot of childs.
Taking childs into account looks fine to me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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