Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:27:11 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Marco Colombo wrote:
> [...] > > They are niced because the user thinks them a bit less > > important. > > Please don't, this assumption is quite wrong. I use nice just to be > 'nice' to other users. I can run my *important* CPU hog simulation > nice +10 in order to let other people get more CPU when the need it.
yep. The OOM killer heuristics *must not* penalize any other kernel feature. Rather introduce a orthogonal voluntary "importance" system-call, which marks processes as more and less important. This is similar to priority, it can only be decreased by ordinary users.
Ingo
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