Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:48:10 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory? |
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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)
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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