On Wed 04-09-19 05:52:43, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > On 2019/09/03 23:45, Michal Hocko wrote: > > It's primary purpose is > > to help analyse oom victim selection decision. > > I disagree, for I use the process list for understanding what / how many > processes are consuming what kind of memory (without crashing the system) > for anomaly detection purpose. Although we can't dump memory consumed by > e.g. file descriptors, disabling dump_tasks() loose that clue, and is > problematic for me.
Does anything really prevent you from enabling this by sysctl though? Or do you claim that this is a general usage pattern and therefore the default change is not acceptable or do you want a changelog to be updated? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
