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SubjectRe: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting?
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 12:30 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:

>>The "oom-thresh" value maps to the max expected memory consumption for
>>that process. As long as a process uses less memory than the specified
>>threshold, then it is immune to the oom-killer.
>
> You would need to specify the measure of memory used by your process;
> see the (still not resolved) RSS debate.

Currently we simply use mm->total_vm, same as the oom killer.

Chris
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