Hi On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 14:17, Ryan Wang <openspace.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have one question about oom killer: > If many processes dealing with network communications, > but due to bad network traffic, the processes have to wait > for a very long time. And meanwhile they may consume > some memeory separately for computation. The number > of such processes may be large. Please refer to my article here : http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html Right now, I can not recall entirely about the rules, but IIRC the processes that do I/O get lower "score". But that doesn't mean it won't be killed if free memory amount is really low... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com -- 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