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Subject:    Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal (late): Enable EarlyOOM
From:       Matthias Clasen <mclasen () redhat ! com>
Date:       2020-01-06 15:28:34
Message-ID: CAEXRhXktudLQSNUHsYWLqagn4Mah7Pc6DVOysoVVK5hCHFRRyA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 5:08 AM Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@0pointer.de>
wrote:

>
> I mean, yes, the OOM killer might not be that great currently, but
> this sounds like something to fix in kernel land, and if that doesn't
> work out for some reason because kernel devs can't agree, then do it
> as fallback in userspace, but with sound input from the kernel folks,
> and the blessing of at least some of the kernel folks.
>
>
I agree that the implementation may need some work, but one thing should be
clear:
it is not a winning strategy to wait for the kernel folks to fix this. They
have for all practical
purposes given up on this problem, and are not going to solve the issue for
us.

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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 5:08 AM Lennart Poettering \
&lt;<a href="mailto:mzerqung@0pointer.de">mzerqung@0pointer.de</a>&gt; \
wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid \
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br> I mean, yes, the OOM killer might not be that \
great currently, but<br> this sounds like something to fix in kernel land, and if \
that doesn&#39;t<br> work out for some reason because kernel devs can&#39;t agree, \
then do it<br> as fallback in userspace, but with sound input from the kernel \
folks,<br> and the blessing of at least some of the kernel folks.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree that the implementation may need some \
work, but one thing should be clear:</div><div>it is not a winning strategy to wait \
for the kernel folks to fix this. They have for all practical</div><div>purposes \
given up on this problem, and are not going to solve the issue for \
us.<br></div></div></div>


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