* Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Saturday 01 December 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > maybe, but we'd have to see how often this gets triggered. An OOM is 
> > something that could happen in any overloaded system - while a hung task 
> > is likely due to a kernel bug.
> 
> What about a client using hard mounted NFS shares here? That shouldn't 
> be killed by the OOM killer in that situation, should it?

NFS is a bit weird in this regard - fundamentally everything should be 
interruptible (or at least killable). Wont the TASK_KILLABLE solve these 
problems?

        Ingo
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