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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:31:15 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: OOM /proc logging
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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