Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:00:31 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM |
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> By design it seems systemd should not allow worker processes to block > indefinitely and in fact it currently uses the same timeout for all > types of worker processes.
And I whole-heartedly believe this is something that fundamentally needs to be addressed in systemd, not in the kernel.
This aproach is actually introducing a user-visible regressions. Look, for example, exec() never times out. Therefore if your system is on its knees, heavily overloaded (or completely broken), you are likely to be able to `reboot' it, because exec("/sbin/reboot") ultimately succeeds.
But with all the timeouts, dbus, "Failed to issue method call: Did not receive a reply" messages, this is getting close to impossible.
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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