On Tue 21-08-12 13:40:45, Glauber Costa wrote: > On 08/21/2012 01:35 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > I am asking because this should trigger memcg-oom > > but that one will usually pick up something else than the fork bomb > > which would have a small memory footprint. But that needs to be handled > > on the oom level obviously. > > > Sure, but keep in mind that the main protection is against tasks *not* > in this memcg. Yes and that's is good step forward. I just wanted to mention that we still have the problem inside the subhierarchy. The changelog was not specific enough. -- 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>