On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Larry Woodman wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 14:39 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > > It recreates the old problem that we OOM while we still have memory > > in other parts of the system. > > How, by the time we get here we have already decided we are going to > OOMkill or panic. This change just obeys sysctl_panic_on_oom before > killing current.
If you panic then there is no reason to kill current. Lets say you have a 10 node system and the application attempt to allocate from node 8 which has no reclaimable memory then the application has a problem not the system as a whole. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
