On Fri, 8 May 2009 00:14:48 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > IOW, you need to freeze the user space totally before trying to disable the > OOM killer. Not necessarily. We only need to take action if a task is about to start oom-killing - presumably by taking a nap. If a process is sitting there happily computing pi then we can leave it running. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html