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SubjectRe: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

* 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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