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SubjectRe: [patch -mm 6/9 v2] oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Alan Cox wrote:

> > /proc/pid/oom_adj is now deprecated so that that it may eventually be
> > removed. The target date for removal is December 2011.
>
> There are systems that rely on this feature. It's ABI, its sacred. We are
> committed to it and it has users. That doesn't really detract from the
> good/bad of the rest of the proposal, it's just one step we can't quite
> make.
>

Andrew suggested that it be deprecated in this way, so that's what was
done. I don't have any strong opinions about leaving it around forever
now that it's otherwise unused beyond simply converting itself into units
for /proc/pid/oom_score_adj at a much higher granularity.


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