Re: [patch] 2.2.10_andrea-VM6.gz

yurj (yurj@alfa.it)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:22:18 +0000


On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 03:36:50AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I also changed how I choose the task to kill: when 2.2.10_andrea-VM6
> reaches OOM, it sends a SIGKILL to all tasks that belongs to the bigger MM
> in the system. I perfectly know it's far from being a perfect solution

Why not reserve some memory, so we don't go never OOM? The problem of
OOM is that you cannot do anything, cause the kernel read always
from disk.

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