Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:38:47 -0800 | Subject | Re: 4.8.8 kernel trigger OOM killer repeatedly when I have lots of RAM that should be free |
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote: > > Thanks a lot for the testing. So what do we do now about 4.8? (4.7 is > already EOL AFAICS). > > - send the patch [1] as 4.8-only stable.
I think that's the right thing to do. It's pretty small, and the argument that it changes the oom logic too much is pretty bogus, I think. The oom logic in 4.8 is simply broken. Let's get it fixed. Changing it is the point.
Linus
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