Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:53:16 -0500 | From | "Bryan Donlan" <> | Subject | Re: [take2] OOM documentation update [was: Linux killed Kenny, bastard!] |
| |
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> wrote:
> + * resulted score is multiplied by the two in the power of oom_adj when it is > + positive, and divided otherwise, i.e. > + points <<= oom_adj when it is positive and > + points >>= oom_adj otherwise
Two to the power of a negative number is equivalent to dividing by two to the power of said exponent's absolute value, making this paragraph more than a bit confusing - indeed, a literal read would make it equivalent to multiplying by 2^abs(oom_adj).
I would think that the following would be enough: * The resulting score is multiplied by two to the power of oom_adj.
Unless we assume admins don't know how exponentiation by a negative number works :)
| |