Shakeel Butt wrote: > I think Tim has given very clear explanation why comparing A & D makes > perfect sense. However I think the above example, a single user system > where a user has designed and created the whole hierarchy and then > attaches different jobs/applications to different nodes in this > hierarchy, is also a valid scenario. One solution I can think of, to > cater both scenarios, is to introduce a notion of 'bypass oom' or not > include a memcg for oom comparision and instead include its children > in the comparison. I'm not catching up to this thread because I don't use memcg. But if there are multiple scenarios, what about offloading memcg OOM handling to loadable kernel modules (like there are many filesystems which are called by VFS interface) ? We can do try and error more casually. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html