Hi! 2009/1/30 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>: > Hi! > >> I never expected it to be merged. I wrote it to allow us to ship a product. >> >> > The top problem is, this file stay on non proper place. >> > then, MM folks don't review at all. >> > >> > I think this patch need to receive MM folks review. >> >> This patch solves two problems for us: >> 1. It gives us more control over which process gets killed when we run >> out of memory. This can easily be fixed in the regular oom killer >> instead. >> 2. It prevents the system from getting unusable due to excessive >> demand paging. Before we added the low memory killer, we had devices >> stuck for many minutes before the system managed to allocate enough >> memory for the oom killer to kick in. >> The second problem is the most critical and if it is solved, we will >> not need this patch. > > Ok, maybe the best way forward is to create a "demo" that can be run > on desktop machine, good idea! :) > where machine misbehaves (like becomes useless for > 10 minutes before OOM killer kicks in), then draw attetion of > Andrew/Nick/etc? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
