Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:25:15 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory? |
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > David Ford wrote: > > > The kernel does try to kill off programs when it runs out of memory but > > unless it picks the memory pig, then that program will probably immediately > > grab any memory the kernel just freed. > > Killing, for instance, kswapd. On my machine last week, the > kernel started killing processes. Its first choice was kswapd, > and then it went on to my window manager and about 10 other > programs.
I have a patch which seems to select the 'right' process to kill almost all of the time. In fact, I've had this patch for well over a year now and I've submitted it to the list several times.
Every time a flamewar ensued and the patch didn't get merged. (and no, I'm not going to submit it again, I have better things to do with my time than getting into the next flamewar)
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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