On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:03:42 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The oom killer chooses not to kill a thread if: > > - an eligible thread has already been oom killed and has yet to exit, > and > > - an eligible thread is exiting but has yet to free all its memory and > is not the thread attempting to currently allocate memory. > > SysRq+F manually invokes the global oom killer to kill a memory-hogging > task. This is normally done as a last resort to free memory when no > progress is being made or to test the oom killer itself. > > For both uses, we always want to kill a thread and never defer. This > patch causes SysRq+F to always kill an eligible thread and can be used to > force a kill even if another oom killed thread has failed to exit. > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Seems nice!. Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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>