On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:51:27PM -0800, David Rientjes (rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Yeah, I proposed /dev/mem_notify being made as a client of cgroups there > in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123200623628685 > > How do you replace the oom killer's capability of giving a killed task > access to memory reserves with TIF_MEMDIE in userspace? /dev/mem_notify is a great idea, but please do not limit existing oom-killer in its ability to do the job and do not rely on application's ability to send a SIGKILL which will not kill tasks in unkillable state contrary to oom-killer. -- Evgeniy Polyakov _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
