Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:09:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks |
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> > A much better solution would be to lower the badness score that the oom > > killer uses for PF_FROZEN threads so that they aren't considered a > > priority for kill unless there's nothing else left to kill. > > Anyway, oom killer shouldn't loop endlessly if it see TIF_MEMDIE on frozen > task, > it must go on and try to kill somebody else. We cannot wait for thawing this > task. >
Did you read my suggestion? I quoted it above again for you. The badness heuristic would only select those tasks to kill as a last resort in the hopes they will eventually be thawed and may exit. Panicking the entire machine for what could be isolated by a cgroup is insanity.
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