Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

From: Bodo Eggert
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 05:59:28 EST


Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2008, at 13:46, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

>>> (and under no-one I include the OOM killer for example!)
>>
>> The OOM killer can be configured and if the fs still uses too much
>> memory
>> then probably it's better to be killed/restarted with journaling
>> support.
>> The important here would be the kernel finally fixing the non-sync
>> behavior
>> when it clams to do so (see recent kernel threads).
>
> You don't get the point. Any process in the system can be using too
> much memory and trigger the OOM killer even when the FS is behaving
> just fine...

Just set /proc/$pid/oom_adj to -17.

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