On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:20:09 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If /proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom is set to 2, the kernel will panic > regardless of whether the memory allocation is constrained by either a > mempolicy or cpuset. > > Since mempolicy-constrained out of memory conditions now iterate through > the tasklist and select a task to kill, it is possible to panic the > machine if all tasks sharing the same mempolicy nodes (including those > with default policy, they may allocate anywhere) or cpuset mems have > /proc/pid/oom_adj values of OOM_DISABLE. This is functionally equivalent > to the compulsory panic_on_oom setting of 2, so the mode is removed. > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> NACK. In an enviroment which depends on cluster-fail-over, this is useful even if in such situation. Thanks, -Kame -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>