Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: User space out of memory approach | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:36:37 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 12:00 +0200, Edjard Souza Mota wrote: > Hi, > > > > > > 1) ranking for the most likely culprits only starts when memory consumption > > > > > gets close to the red zone (for example 98% or something like that). > > > > We do the ranking only in the oom situation, so what's your point ? > > The point is that kernel doesn't need to keep watching the memory space > every time a process needs memory. Only when memory is close this red zone.
Oh, I see. The mechanism which is doing memory management must not be aware of the resources which it is managing ? Am I missing a point ?
tglx
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