Re: Path: for oom_kill.c

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 11:57:34 EST

On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, hugang wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> old ----> points = p->mm->total_vm;
>
> change to ---> points = p->pid;

Ummm, what exactly do you want to achieve with this?

> before change it ,kernel will kill some pid, to change it kernel
> will kill hello(bash).

Before the change, the kernel will try to kill a BIG process
(the obvious suspect for a memory leak). After the change,
the kernel will kill an almost random process ...

regards,

Rik 

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