Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:34:11 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: oom kill oddness. |
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:03:14PM -0400, Larry Woodman wrote:
> Dave, this has been a problem since the out_of_memory() function was > changed > between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11. Before this change out_of_memory() required > multiple > calls within 5 seconds before actually OOM killed a process. After the > change(in 2.6.11) > a single call to out_of_memory() results in OOM killing a process. The > following patch > allows the 2.6.18 system to run under much more memory pressure before > it OOM kills.
Some of these tests do seem to be readded in Linus' current tree.
[PATCH] oom: don't kill current when another OOM in progress
went in earlier today for eg. I'm curious why these checks were ever removed in the first place though.
Dave
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