Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:17:39 +0300 | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Cgroup based OOM killer controller |
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:38:21PM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan (knikanth@suse.de) wrote: > As Alan Cox suggested/wondered in this thread, > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/12/235 , this is a container group based approach > to override the oom killer selection without losing all the benefits of the > current oom killer heuristics and oom_adj interface. > > It adds a tunable oom.victim to the oom cgroup. The oom killer will kill the > process using the usual badness value but only within the cgroup with the > maximum value for oom.victim before killing any process from a cgroup with a > lesser oom.victim number. Oom killing could be disabled by setting > oom.victim=0.
Looks good, except that in some conditions (everyone has zero for example) victim=0 does not disalbe oom-killer because of !chosen part of the condition.
-- Evgeniy Polyakov
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