>> Could you post the stack trace of the hung oom victim? Also could you >> post the full kernel log? With strace, when running 500 concurrent mem-hog tasks on the same kernel, 33 of them failed with: strace: ../sysdeps/nptl/fork.c:136: __libc_fork: Assertion `THREAD_GETMEM (self, tid) != ppid' failed. Which is: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15392 And discussed before at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/6/470 but that patch was not accepted. -- 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>