(2011/05/31 13:10), KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > (2011/05/31 10:33), CAI Qian wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Have tested those patches rebased from KOSAKI for the latest mainline. >> It still killed random processes and recevied a panic at the end by >> using root user. The full oom output can be found here. >> http://people.redhat.com/qcai/oom > > You ran fork-bomb as root. Therefore unprivileged process was killed at first. > It's no random. It's intentional and desirable. I mean > > - If you run the same progream as non-root, python will be killed at first. > Because it consume a lot of memory than daemons. > - If you run the same program as root, non root process and privilege explicit > dropping processes (e.g. irqbalance) will be killed at first. I mean, oom-killer start to kill python after killing all unprivilege process in this case. Please wait & see ahile after sequence. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>