On Fri, 8 May 2009 00:14:48 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> wrote:

> IOW, you need to freeze the user space totally before trying to disable the
> OOM killer.

Not necessarily.  We only need to take action if a task is about to
start oom-killing - presumably by taking a nap.

If a process is sitting there happily computing pi then we can leave it
running.
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