On Fri 08-04-22 04:52:33, Nico Pache wrote: [...] > In a heavily contended CPU with high memory pressure the delay may also > lead to other processes unnecessarily OOMing. Let me just comment on this part because there is likely a confusion inlved. Delaying the oom_reaper _cannot_ lead to additional OOM killing because the the oom killing is throttled by existence of a preexisting OOM victim. In other words as long as there is an alive victim no further victims are not selected and the oom killer backs off. The oom_repaer will hide the alive oom victim after it is processed. The longer the delay will be the longer an oom victim can block a further progress but it cannot really cause unnecessary OOMing. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
