On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Michal Hocko wrote: > When we are in the global OOM condition then you are right, we have a > higher chance to panic. I still find the patch an improvement because > encountering a frozen task and looping over it without any progress > (even though there are other tasks that could be killed) is more > probable than having no killable task at all. > On non-NUMA machines there is even not a big chance that somebody would > be able to thaw a task as the system is already on knees. > That's obviously false since we call oom_killer_disable() in freeze_processes() to disable the oom killer from ever being called in the first place, so this is something you need to resolve with Rafael before you cause more machines to panic. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>