Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:35:21 -0800 (PST) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [patch -mm 6/9 v2] oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable |
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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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