Re: oom killer and its superior braindamage in 2.4

Rik van Riel (riel@imladris.surriel.com)
Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:32:33 -0300 (BRT)

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
>
> > - Feb 21 10:04:57 codeman kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2657 (apache).
> >
> > The above log entry (apache) appeared for about 4 hours every some
> > seconds (same PID) until I thought about sysrq-b
>
> > Is there any chance we can fix this up?
>
> Yes.

Never mind my last idea, it can be done much simpler ;)

Does the below patch fix your problem ?

Rik

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===== mm/oom_kill.c 1.11 vs edited =====
--- 1.11/mm/oom_kill.c	Fri Aug 16 10:59:46 2002
+++ edited/mm/oom_kill.c	Sat Feb 22 17:31:49 2003
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@


 	if (!p->mm)
 		return 0;
+
+	if (p->flags & PF_MEMDIE)
+		return 0;
 	/*
 	 * The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness.
 	 */
-
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