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DateTue, 3 Nov 1998 22:09:16 -0800 (PST)
FromLinus Torvalds <>
SubjectRe: [patch] my latest oom stuff


On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> Well, I guess that only leaves the question what
> we should do to clean up an OOM situation -- and
> if we want a rigorous solution to the problem in
> 2.2 or if we want to continue deadlocking or killing
> random stuff (might be the X server).

I don't think anybody has a good solution to that. I've never heard of
any, at least.

Right now we kill "random" stuff, although obviously statistical
probability tends to mean that if we have a high rate of page allocations
from some process then that process gets killed (during my tests the
system actually always killed the right process, but that was done by
having a process that rapidly ate lots of memory).

Linus


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