I guess not. I think is something related to badness function implemented in oom_kill.c file. I would like someone to confirm my opinion.
BR
Mauricio Lin.
Christophe Lucas <c.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mauricio Lin (mauriciolin2000@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know why Out of memory killer made by Rik
> Van Riel it does not work well for embedded systems?
>
> Is the ranking method not so accurate for "points"
> variable in badness function?
>
> There can be two distincts process get the same point,
> because the division operation used in OOM Killer
> algorithm truncates or rounds the pointing value.
>
> Is this the reason for the mistake in embedded
> systems?
>
> Mauricio Lin.
I don't know how OOM killer are coded, but is it liknked to the fact
embedded system are sometimes without MMU system ??
If I say some mistakes please correct me. I am a poor newbie ;)
Have a good day.
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