Re: [PATCH v2] mm,oom: exclude oom_task_origin processes if they are OOM-unkillable.

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On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Michal Hocko wrote:

> Hmm, is it really helpful though? What would you deduce from seeing a
> large rss an OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN task? Misconfigured system? There must
> have been a reason to mark the task that way in the first place so you
> can hardly do anything about it. Moreover you can deduce the same from
> the available information.
> 

Users run processes that are vital to the machine with OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN.  
This does not make them immune to having memory leaks that caused the oom 
condition, and identifying that has triaged many bugs in the past.

Thanks.

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