On Thu 11-04-19 07:51:21, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 18:43 -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan via Lsf-pc wrote: > > The time to kill a process and free its memory can be critical when > > the > > killing was done to prevent memory shortages affecting system > > responsiveness. > > The OOM killer is fickle, and often takes a fairly > long time to trigger. Speeding up what happens after > that seems like the wrong thing to optimize. > > Have you considered using something like oomd to > proactively kill tasks when memory gets low, so > you do not have to wait for an OOM kill? AFAIU, this is the point here. They probably have a user space OOM killer implementation and want to achieve killing to be as swift as possible. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
