Re: WANTED: Re: VM lockup with 2.4.8 / 2.4.8pre8

Jon 'tex' Boone (tex@delamancha.org)
Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:04:59 -0400


Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
> ---------------------
> This means the OOM killer should be tuned, or more precisely,
> the code deciding when the OOM killer kicks in should be tuned.
>
> The code involved is very easy, so I'll explain it a bit and
> ask for volunteers to tweak the code and fix the OOM behaviour.
>
> The functions/places you may want to tweak are:
>
> mm/vmscan.c::kswapd()
> else if (out_of_memory()) {
> oom_kill()
>
> mm/oom_kill.c::out_of_memory()

Rik,

Should said volunteer(s) work with stock 2.4.8?

-tex

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tex@delamancha.org
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