On Fri 17-11-17 19:38:01, Tetsuo Handa wrote: [...] > [ 1792.835056] Out of memory: Kill process 14294 (idle-priority) score 876 or sacrifice child > [ 1792.836073] Killed process 14458 (normal-priority) total-vm:4176kB, anon-rss:88kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB Wen you are in a situation when you are killing 88kB process then you are most probably going to suffer more oom kills anyway. Optimizing for this case is thus questionable at best. You would need to come up with a reasonable explanation why the livelock as described by Andrea is not possible with the current MM reclaim retry implementation. I am not saying the patch is wrong but your justification _is_ wrong. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>
