On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Alan Cox wrote: > > /proc/pid/oom_adj is now deprecated so that that it may eventually be > > removed. The target date for removal is December 2011. > > There are systems that rely on this feature. It's ABI, its sacred. We are > committed to it and it has users. That doesn't really detract from the > good/bad of the rest of the proposal, it's just one step we can't quite > make. > Andrew suggested that it be deprecated in this way, so that's what was done. I don't have any strong opinions about leaving it around forever now that it's otherwise unused beyond simply converting itself into units for /proc/pid/oom_score_adj at a much higher granularity. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>