Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:10:36 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
| |
> i think the OOM algorithm should not kill processes that have > child-processes, it should first kill child-less 'leaves'. Killing a > process that has child processes likely results in unexpected behavior of > those child-processes. (and equals to effective killing of those > child-processes as well.)
Lets kill a 6 week long typical background compute job because netscape exploded (and yes netscape has a child process)
Rik's current OOM killer works very well but its a heuristic, so like all heuristics you can always find a problem case
Alan
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |