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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Jeff Davis <linux@j-davis.com>
Cc: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] badness() dramatically overcounts memory
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:09:16 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0802051507460.18347@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202252561.24634.64.camel@dogma.ljc.laika.com>

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Jeff Davis wrote:

> > The interesting thing is the use of total_vm and not the RSS which is used as
> > the basis by the OOM killer. I need to read/understand the code a bit more.
> 
> RSS makes more sense to me as well.
> 
> To me, it makes no sense to count shared memory, because killing a
> process doesn't free the shared memory.
> 

Andrea Arcangeli has patches pending which change this to the RSS.  
Specifically:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=119977937126925

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-05 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1202182480.24634.22.camel@dogma.ljc.laika.com>
2008-02-05  4:13 ` [PATCH] badness() dramatically overcounts memory Balbir Singh
2008-02-05 23:02   ` Jeff Davis
2008-02-05 23:09     ` David Rientjes [this message]
2008-02-06  1:54       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-06  2:05         ` David Rientjes
2008-02-06  4:00         ` Balbir Singh

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