Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:38:24 -0700 (PDT) | | From | David Rientjes <> | | Subject | Re: Memory overcommit |
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> It's _not_ special to X. > > Almost all applications which uses many dynamica libraries can be affected by this, > total_vm. And, as I explained to Vedran, multi-threaded program like Java can easily > increase total_vm without using many anon_rss. > And it's the reason I hate overcommit_memory. size of VM doesn't tell anything. >
Right, because in Vedran's latest oom log it shows that Xorg is preferred more than any other thread other than the memory hogging test program with your patch than without. I pointed out a clear distinction in the killing order using both total_vm and rss in that log and in my opinion killing Xorg as opposed to krunner would be undesireable.
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