Michal Hocko wrote: > I am not sure we can fix these pathological loads where we hit the > higher order depletion and there is a chance that one of the thousands > tasks terminates in an unpredictable way which happens to race with the > OOM killer. When I hit this problem on Dec 24th, I didn't run thousands of tasks. I think there were less than one hundred tasks in the system and only a few tasks were running. Not a pathological load at all. I'm running thousands of tasks only for increasing the possibility in the reproducer. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>