Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory? | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:49:05 -0500 |
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: >On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, David Ford wrote: >> Jesse Pollard wrote: >> >> > It gets the process currently requesting memory. Nothing more. That process may >> > be init, if init is requesting memory (ie. fork/exec). >> >> Which is "obviously incorrect" as it kills the wrong program >> nearly all the time. It's easy to make a data trail. > >Indeed. Now we need a volunteer to pick up my OOM killer >patch and try to get it into the kernel. > >I've submitted it a few times and I won't do that again. >(getting the new VM to perform well is way more important >at the moment)
Are you planning to include the resource controls/accounting that would help?
I've seen several discussions of the accounting stuff (beancounter references) but nothing for the new VM with that aspect.
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