On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:32 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I struggle to understand how the approach of randomly continuing to kill > more and more processes in the hope that it slows down usage of memory > reserves or that we get lucky is better. Thank you to one and all for the feedback. I agree, in lieu of treating TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks as unkillable, and omitting them from the oom selection process, continuing the carnage is likely to result in more unpredictable results. At this time, I believe Oleg's solution of zapping the process memory use while it sleeps with the fatal signal enroute is ideal. Kyle Walker -- 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>