Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:26:52 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting? |
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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.
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