On Sat, 19 Sep 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > Nack to this. TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be time constrained/bounded > state. Using it as an oom victim criteria makes the victim selection > less deterministic which is undesirable. As much as I am aware of > potential issues with the current implementation, making the behavior > more random doesn't really help. > Agreed, we can't avoid killing a process simply because it is in D state, this isn't an indication that the process will not be able to exit and in the worst case could panic the system if all other processes cannot be oom killed. -- 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>