From: John Moser <john.r.moser@gmail.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: OOM at low page cache?
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:27:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C8F1C1.7050908@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150128062609.GA4706@blaptop>
On 01/28/2015 01:26 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
>
> Below could be band-aid until we find a elegant solution?
>
>
I don't know about elegant; but I'd be impressed if anyone figured out
how to just go Windows 95 with it and build a Task Master interface. It
would be useful to have a kernel interface that allows a service to
attach, delegate an interface program, etc., and then pull it up under
certain conditions (low memory, heavy scheduling due to lots of
fork()ing, etc.) and assign temporary high priority. Basically,
nearly-pause the system and allow the user to select and kill/term
processes, or bring a process forward (for like 10 seconds, then kick it
back again) so the user can save their work and exit gracefully. At
hard OOM, you could either OOM or pause everything (you'd need a
zero-allocation path to kill things in a user-end OOM handler).
Yeah, imaginative fantasies. Totally doable, but probably too complex
to bother. There's all kinds of semaphore inversion or some such to
worry about; how do you ensure an X11 program is 100% snappy when the
system is being thrashed by fork() bombs and memory pressure?
Actually, I have no idea what I'm talking about.
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2015-01-27 11:03 ` OOM at low page cache? Vlastimil Babka
2015-01-28 6:26 ` Minchan Kim
2015-01-28 12:36 ` Rik van Riel
2015-01-28 14:13 ` John Moser
2015-01-28 14:15 ` John Moser
2015-01-29 1:24 ` Minchan Kim
2015-01-28 14:27 ` John Moser [this message]
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