Query about Enhanced Out-Of-Memory handling

[bill4carson]

On 2011年12月11日 14:38, Peter Teoh wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:24 AM, bill4carson <bill4carson at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bill4carson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, all
>
>     Since there is a practical needs for user application with the ability
>     to sense kernel memory use pressure,
>     http://elinux.org/Memory_Management gives some approach on this as
>     below:
>
>     OOM notification in cgroups
>     mem_notify patches
>     Google cgroup OOM handler
>     Nokia OOM enhancements
>
>
> OOM by itself is for non-critical server, or hand-held devices where 
> physical memory is severely constrained. For server running database, 
> or any high end server, it is disastrous to have it turned on. Judge 
> for yourself the criticality of your applications and turn it on/off 
> if needs to:
>
> http://serverfault.com/questions/141988/avoid-linux-out-of-memory-application-teardown
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-oom-killer-out-of-memory-and-nfs-server-optimization.html
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/49531/
> http://lwn.net/Articles/317814/
> http://lwn.net/Articles/391222/
>
> For the latest development, read this:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2011-May/msg00000.html
>
> and the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt and 
> Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> has some development on OOM as well
>
>
>     AFAIK, it seems none of these have been merged into mainline or
>     updated
>     continuously,
>     I'm not so familiar with mm system, so may I ask which known
>     approach is
>     best to work with mainline kernel now?
>
>
Very informative, thanks :)


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> Regards,
> Peter Teoh

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