Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:09:16 -0800 (PST) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff |
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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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