Re: Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation

[Andi Kleen]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 22:03, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > I don't think you really want to open a  full scale "is the oom killer needed"
> > thread. Check the archives - there have been some going on for months.
> > 
> > But I think we can agree that together with mbind the oom killer is pretty
> > useless, can't we?
> 
> Excellent points.
> 
> I approve this patch.

I think it should be put into 2.6.16. Andrew?

I had the small objection about adding static noinline, but it's really not important
and the patch can be used as it.

-Andi


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