Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:04:44 -0800 (PST) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [patch 5/7 -mm] oom: replace sysctls with quick mode |
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > "_quick" is always bad sysctl name. > > > > Why? It does exactly what it says: it kills current without doing an > > expensive tasklist scan and suppresses the possibly long tasklist dump. > > That's the oom killer's "quick mode." > > Because, an administrator think "_quick" implies "please use it always". > plus, "quick" doesn't describe clealy meanings. oom_dump_tasks does. >
The audience for both of these tunables (now that oom_dump_tasks is default to enabled) is users with extremely long tasklists that want to avoid those scans, so oom_kill_quick implies that it won't waste any time and will act how it's documented: simply kill current and move on.
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