From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:41:47 +0200 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group Message-ID: <20071016224147.GB29378@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Will Schmidt , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: Hi, I'm interested about this patch dcca2bde4f86a14d3291660bede8f1844fe2b3df I don't actually have a problem with what was merged, but I still think that we should be calling the oom killer from this point. The oom killer knows about what tasks to oom and what not to, whether to panic on oom, etc. I have a patch for this, but wasn't really pushing it hard because it's pretty unlikely for x86 and standard filesystems to oom from here... What architecture, filesystems, and workload did you observe problems with? Did you discover which allocation was failing? Thanks, Nick -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org