Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills

[Andrew Morton]

Martin MOKREJ__ <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Anyway, plain 2.6.7 kills only the application asking for
>  so much memory and logs via syslog:
>  Out of Memory: Killed process 58888 (RNAsubopt)
> 
>    It's a lot better compared to what we have in 2.6.10-rc2,
>  from my user's view.

We haven't made any changes to the oom-killer algorithm since July 2003. 
Weird.

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