Re: OOM /proc logging

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:02:06PM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
>         Hello folks...
>      After another complain on #kernelnewbies about the OOM killer doing
>   strange thingss, by killing small processes when its really not needed,

I think it's not reproducible on 2.4.14pre6aa1.

>   and not doing anything when its really OOM i ran out of nerves and came out
>   with an idea, which i believe already settled down is some brains.
>     I speak about providing in /proc list of process badnesses, possibly with
>   some additional info...
>     Its just a shame to have a stable kernel randomly killing processes even when 
>   its not needed...
> 
>   (this message was planned as answer to Linus request for any kind of VM bitchig....)
> 
> regards, Samium Gromoff

Andrea