Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Apr 2019 20:19:46 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/2] opportunistic memory reclaim of a killed process |
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On Thu 11-04-19 09:47:31, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: [...] > > I would question whether we really need this at all? Relying on the exit > > speed sounds like a fundamental design problem of anything that relies > > on it. > > Relying on it is wrong, I agree. There are protections like allocation > throttling that we can fall back to stop memory depletion. However > having a way to free up resources that are not needed by a dying > process quickly would help to avoid throttling which hurts user > experience.
I am not opposing speeding up the exit time in general. That is a good thing. Especially for a very large processes (e.g. a DB). But I do not really think we want to expose an API to control this specific aspect. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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