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. -- 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>