On Thu 09-06-22 17:22:14, Christian König wrote: [...] > Those files were never part of any filesystem in the first place, so by > killing all the process referencing them you can indeed free the memory > locked by them. Yes, this would require the oom killer to understand that all processes referencing that file are killed. Theoretically possible but I am not sure a feasible solution. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs