Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Dec 2007 09:58:47 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks |
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* Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 01 December 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > maybe, but we'd have to see how often this gets triggered. An OOM is > > something that could happen in any overloaded system - while a hung task > > is likely due to a kernel bug. > > What about a client using hard mounted NFS shares here? That shouldn't > be killed by the OOM killer in that situation, should it?
NFS is a bit weird in this regard - fundamentally everything should be interruptible (or at least killable). Wont the TASK_KILLABLE solve these problems?
Ingo
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