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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs, mm: account filp and names caches to kmemcg
On Fri 27-10-17 13:50:47, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > Why is OOM-disabling a thing? Why isn't this simply a "kill everything
> > else before you kill me"? It's crashing the kernel in trying to
> > protect a userspace application. How is that not insane?
>
> In parallel to other discussion, I think we should definitely move
> from "completely oom-disabled" semantics to something similar to "kill
> me last" semantics. Is there any objection to this idea?

Could you be more specific what you mean?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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