Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 15:32 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:

On Friday, November 05, 2004 12:01 pm, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

quoted

Comments?

Sounds good, though we may want to do a couple of more things, we shouldn't 
kill root tasks quite as easily and we should avoid zombies since they may be 
large apps in the process of exiting, and killing them would be bad (iirc 
it'll cause a panic).

Yep, it makes sense, but it still does not fix the selection problem,
where e.g. sshd is killed while a out of control forking server floods
the machine with child processes. 

Patch to address this:
 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109922680000746&w=2

tglx