Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm, oom: introduce oom reaper

2016-02-15 Thread Michal Hocko
On Sat 06-02-16 22:22:20, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michal Hocko wrote: > > There is one notable exception to this, though, if the OOM victim was > > in the process of coredumping the result would be incomplete. This is > > considered a reasonable constrain because the overall system health is > > more

Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm, oom: introduce oom reaper

2016-02-06 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Michal Hocko wrote: > There is one notable exception to this, though, if the OOM victim was > in the process of coredumping the result would be incomplete. This is > considered a reasonable constrain because the overall system health is > more important than debugability of a particular application

Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm, oom: introduce oom reaper

2016-02-03 Thread Michal Hocko
On Wed 03-02-16 15:48:18, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > From: Michal Hocko > > > > This is based on the idea from Mel Gorman discussed during LSFMM 2015 and > > independently brought up by Oleg Nesterov. > > > > The OOM killer currently allows to kill onl

Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm, oom: introduce oom reaper

2016-02-03 Thread David Rientjes
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko > > This is based on the idea from Mel Gorman discussed during LSFMM 2015 and > independently brought up by Oleg Nesterov. > > The OOM killer currently allows to kill only a single task in a good > hope that the task will terminate in

[PATCH 1/5] mm, oom: introduce oom reaper

2016-02-03 Thread Michal Hocko
From: Michal Hocko This is based on the idea from Mel Gorman discussed during LSFMM 2015 and independently brought up by Oleg Nesterov. The OOM killer currently allows to kill only a single task in a good hope that the task will terminate in a reasonable time and frees up its memory. Such a tas