On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> - Feb 21 10:04:57 codeman kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2657 (apache).
>
> The above log entry (apache) appeared for about 4 hours every some
> seconds (same PID) until I thought about sysrq-b
> Is there any chance we can fix this up?
Yes.
1) add a VM_KILLED flag
2) set this flag on the p->mm->def_flags when you kill a
process/thread from oom_kill.c
3) clear the flag on process exit
4) on a new call to oom_kill, skip processes when
(p->mm->def_flags & VM_KILLED) by returning 0
points for such a process
cheers,
Rik
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