Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>  * We need to find out why the oom-killer is not killing things fast
>    enough. Based on our results, we might consider configuring
>    /proc/$pid/oom_adj to preferentially kill some processes (e.g., the
>    foreground [or background?] activities.)

Any reason why killing first activities' processes wouldn't solve the
stability issue? AFAIK, we haven't seen OOM conditions without any
activity open.

Just in case, I'm not saying that isn't worth to do any of the other
things on your list.

Regards,

Tomeu