Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4] oom_kill.c: Kill obvious processes first

2005-02-28 Thread Parag Warudkar
One person pointed out (rightly so) that this patch might end up killing a Oracle process for example since it occupies more than 60% memory - which is not good. While that may be case for a server, I think for a desktop this patch is right - it allows the user to gain control on the machine whi

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4] oom_kill.c: Kill obvious processes first

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Parag Warudkar wrote: oom_kill.c misses very obvious targets - For example, a process occupying > 80% memory, not superuser and not having hardware access gets ignored by it. Logically, such a process, if killed , is going to make things return to normal thereby eliminating the need for oom kill

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc4] oom_kill.c: Kill obvious processes first

2005-02-24 Thread Parag Warudkar
oom_kill.c misses very obvious targets - For example, a process occupying > 80% memory, not superuser and not having hardware access gets ignored by it. Logically, such a process, if killed , is going to make things return to normal thereby eliminating the need for oom killer to further scan fo