Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:25:18 +0100 | From | Vedran Furač <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling |
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Am I missing something fundamental here ?
Yes, the fact linux mm currently sucks. How else would you explain possibility of killing random (often root owned) processes using a 5 lines program started by an ordinary user? Killed process could be an apache web server or X server on a desktop. I demonstrated this flaw few months ago here and only Kame tried to find a way to fix it but encountered noncooperation.
I don't know what to say, really. Sad... Actually funny, when you know that competition OS, often ridiculed by linux users, doesn't suffer any consequences when that same 5 line program is run.
Regards, Vedran
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