Re: OOM stupidity

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> Swap was hardly filled up, and remember it's the 2xRAM swap size now! > Has Linux been too eager to accept recent windows converts (and prior > to their recovery from that brain damage) and lost it's sharp edge of The Linux tree OOM trigger is way wrong right now. We know > Where is a patch to

Re: OOM stupidity

2001-04-29 Thread Jonathan Morton
>Where is a patch to allow the sensible OOM I had in prior kernels? >(cause this crap is getting pitched) I gave Alan a patch to fix the problem where the OOM activates too early (eg. when there's still plenty of swap and buffer memory to eat). I don't know whether this made it into the mainstre

OOM stupidity

2001-04-29 Thread Colonel
When the OOM kills the process that I am currently composing within (an active character stream), that is a MICROSOFT WINDOWS behavior. I don't care if it's hogging the machine, *I'M* using it! That is the point after all, isn't it? A human sysadmin could kill my process (and then I would hav