Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler

Nick Piggin wrote:

What I especially have in mind here is the OOM_DISABLE and panic_on_oom sysctl rather than expecting particularly much better general oom killing behaviour. Suppose you have a critical failover node or heartbeat process or something where you'd rather the system to panic and reboot instead of doing something

silly...

Oh, I already said that.

Well anyway, I'm not sure exactly how people use these tunables, but I expect

those that do, _really_ want them to work.

--

Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -

To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

---

• References:
  • [rfc][patch 0/5] 2.6.19-rc1: oom killer fixes
    • From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
  • [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler
    • From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
  • Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler
    • From: Kirill Korotaev <[email protected]>
  • Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler
    • From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
  • Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler
    • From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
  • Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler
    • From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>

• Prev by Date: Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler
• Next by Date: Re: [PATCH 00 of 23][-mm] Unionfs: Stackable Namespace Unification Filesystem
• Previous by thread: Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler
• Next by thread: KDE confuses 2.6.19-rc1+ AKA "cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!"
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]