Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:53:58 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: oom killer and its superior braindamage in 2.4 |
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, David Mansfield wrote:
> So you're saying that a process can stay in the D state, without ever > getting enough resources to complete a single Uninteruptible wait, for > hours at a time?
Or even in the R state, but that would only happen when there is a kernel bug. The OOM killer can do nothing but hope for the best and try another process if the first one doesn't want to exit.
> Ok. Now I understand your patch. Thanks for the info. > > You should push your patch to Marcelo.
Will do.
cheers,
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