Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:46:56 +0100 | From | Vedran Furač <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] oom-kill: add lowmem usage aware oom kill handling |
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David Rientjes wrote:
> The oom killer has been doing this for years and I haven't noticed a huge > surge in complaints about it killing X specifically because of that code > in oom_kill_process().
Well you said it yourself, you won't see a surge because "oom killer has been doing this *for years*". So you'll have a more/less constant number of complains over the years. Just google for: linux, random, kill, memory;
What provoked me to start this discussions is that every few months on our croatian linux newsgroup someone starts asking why is linux randomly killing his processes. And at the end of discussion a few, mostly aix/solaris sysadmins, conclude that linux is still a toy.
Regards, Vedran
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