Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 20:00:56 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, bert hubert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:38:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > So the process that gave X the bitmap dies. What now? Are we going to > > depend on X un-counting the resources? > > > > I'd prefer just X having a higher "mm nice level" or something. > > I wonder how many megabytes we can fill with all messages about > an OOM killer. I remember threads about this from '94 onwards. > Perhaps we can finally have a sane one now :-)
In reality, the OOM killer I mailed a few days ago behaves quite well in the real world.
I hope Linus will be as sensitive to theoretical arguments with no foundation in reality as I am (ie. not), so we'll have SOMETHING in the kernel soon.
If we later find out there are some problems with the OOM killer, we can always change it then. No need to hold up a reasonable solution when the current kernel has NO solution to the problem at all ...
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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