Re: User space out of memory approach

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 12:05 +0200, Edjard Souza Mota wrote:

> Yes, agreed. Our point was just to re-organize current OOM killer to release the
> kernel from doing rating, which is not its task any way.

It is a kernel task and will always be a kernel task. The kernel manages
memory resources and therefor is the place which is responsible to solve
the oom situation.

The userland daemon or what ever can only be a add on to give a hint for
the final decision.

tglx




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