On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > A much better solution would be to lower the badness score that the oom > > killer uses for PF_FROZEN threads so that they aren't considered a > > priority for kill unless there's nothing else left to kill. > > Anyway, oom killer shouldn't loop endlessly if it see TIF_MEMDIE on frozen > task, > it must go on and try to kill somebody else. We cannot wait for thawing this > task. > Did you read my suggestion? I quoted it above again for you. The badness heuristic would only select those tasks to kill as a last resort in the hopes they will eventually be thawed and may exit. Panicking the entire machine for what could be isolated by a cgroup is insanity. -- 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>