OOM killer ultimate patch...

[Jani Monoses]

Hi 

here's the patch that will solve all OOM killer problems out
there...someone had to do it.

Jani.

--- linux/mm/oom_kill.c.orig	Fri Mar 30 11:06:24 2001
+++ linux/mm/oom_kill.c	Fri Mar 30 14:49:56 2001
@@ -147,6 +147,16 @@
  * CAP_SYS_RAW_IO set, send SIGTERM instead (but it's unlikely that
  * we select a process with CAP_SYS_RAW_IO set).
  */
+
+/*
+ * Even if these new signals are not (yet) required by SuS or POSIX ,
+ * Linux should be able to handle them...
+ * PIGTERM and PIGKILL are similar to SIGTERM and SIGKILL.The difference is that they are
+ * only sent to memory hogs, hence their name.
+ */ 
+#define PIGTERM	SIGTERM
+#define PIGKILL	SIGKILL
+
 void oom_kill(void)
 {
 
@@ -168,9 +178,9 @@
 
 	/* This process has hardware access, be more careful. */
 	if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
-		force_sig(SIGTERM, p);
+		force_sig(PIGTERM, p);
 	} else {
-		force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
+		force_sig(PIGKILL, p);
 	}
 
 	/*