Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 7 May 2009 15:38:24 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: Add __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL flag |
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On Fri, 8 May 2009 00:14:48 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> IOW, you need to freeze the user space totally before trying to disable the > OOM killer.
Not necessarily. We only need to take action if a task is about to start oom-killing - presumably by taking a nap.
If a process is sitting there happily computing pi then we can leave it running.
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