Re: [PATCH] oom: skip frozen tasks

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Michal Hocko wrote:

> When we are in the global OOM condition then you are right, we have a
> higher chance to panic. I still find the patch an improvement because
> encountering a frozen task and looping over it without any progress
> (even though there are other tasks that could be killed) is more
> probable than having no killable task at all.
> On non-NUMA machines there is even not a big chance that somebody would
> be able to thaw a task as the system is already on knees.
> 

That's obviously false since we call oom_killer_disable() in 
freeze_processes() to disable the oom killer from ever being called in the 
first place, so this is something you need to resolve with Rafael before 
you cause more machines to panic.
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