On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Lord Glauber Costa of Sealand <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * memcg/global oom handling: I believe that the OOM killer could be > significantly improved to allow for more deterministic killing of tasks, > specially in containers scenarios where memcg is heavily deployed. In > some situations, a group encompasses a whole service, and under > pressure, it would be better to shut down the group altogether with all > its tasks, while in others it would be better to keep the current > behavior of shooting down a single task. We at Google have some OOM wish-list as well: - having an option to kill the entire cgroup when a contained task is selected to die; - recursive setting of OOM kill priorities in a cgroup hierarchy I am frankly not the best person to talk about this; however if this topic was selected I could plan for it and bring on a few notes :) -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>