Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: User space out of memory approach | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:16:54 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 21:10 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2005-01-16 at 10:06, Edjard Souza Mota wrote: > > What do you think about the point we are trying to make, i.e., moving the > > ranking of PIDs to be killed to user space? Or, making user have some influence > > on it? We were misunderstood because the patch we sent was to make "a slight" > > organization in the way OOM killer compute rates to PIDs, not to change its > > Im sceptical there is an answer but moving it to user space (or at least > implementing /proc tunables in user space to experiment) certainly seems > to be the right way to find out.
No objections against an userspace tuning mechanism, but I still doubt that replacing the always imperfect in kernel selection completely is feasable.
tglx
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