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Subject[PATCH] oom_kill: use rss value instead of vm size for badness
I may add more tweaks based on this. But simple start point as this patch
will be good. This patch is based on mmotm + Kosaki's
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125669809305167&w=2

Test results on various environment are appreciated.

Regards.
-Kame
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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

It's reported that OOM-Killer kills Gnone/KDE at first...
And yes, we can reproduce it easily.

Now, oom-killer uses mm->total_vm as its base value. But in recent
applications, there are a big gap between VM size and RSS size.
Because
- Applications attaches much dynamic libraries. (Gnome, KDE, etc...)
- Applications may alloc big VM area but use small part of them.
(Java, and multi-threaded applications has this tendency because
of default-size of stack.)

I think using mm->total_vm as score for oom-kill is not good.
By the same reason, overcommit memory can't work as expected.
(In other words, if we depends on total_vm, using overcommit more positive
is a good choice.)

This patch uses mm->anon_rss/file_rss as base value for calculating badness.

Following is changes to OOM score(badness) on an environment with 1.6G memory
plus memory-eater(500M & 1G).

Top 10 of badness score. (The highest one is the first candidate to be killed)
Before
badness program
91228 gnome-settings-
94210 clock-applet
103202 mixer_applet2
106563 tomboy
112947 gnome-terminal
128944 mmap <----------- 500M malloc
129332 nautilus
215476 bash <----------- parent of 2 mallocs.
256944 mmap <----------- 1G malloc
423586 gnome-session

After
badness
1911 mixer_applet2
1955 clock-applet
1986 xinit
1989 gnome-session
2293 nautilus
2955 gnome-terminal
4113 tomboy
104163 mmap <----------- 500M malloc.
168577 bash <----------- parent of 2 mallocs
232375 mmap <----------- 1G malloc

seems good for me.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
---
mm/oom_kill.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: mm-test-kernel/mm/oom_kill.c
===================================================================
--- mm-test-kernel.orig/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ mm-test-kernel/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct
/*
* The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness.
*/
- points = mm->total_vm;
+ points = get_mm_counter(mm, anon_rss) + get_mm_counter(mm, file_rss);

/*
* After this unlock we can no longer dereference local variable `mm'
@@ -116,8 +116,12 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct
*/
list_for_each_entry(child, &p->children, sibling) {
task_lock(child);
- if (child->mm != mm && child->mm)
- points += child->mm->total_vm/2 + 1;
+ if (child->mm != mm && child->mm) {
+ unsigned long cpoints;
+ cpoints = get_mm_counter(child->mm, anon_rss);
+ + get_mm_counter(child->mm, file_rss);
+ points += cpoints/2 + 1;
+ }
task_unlock(child);
}



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