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SubjectRe: User space out of memory approach
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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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