On Sat, 19 Sep 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > Nack to this. TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be time constrained/bounded > state. Using it as an oom victim criteria makes the victim selection > less deterministic which is undesirable. As much as I am aware of > potential issues with the current implementation, making the behavior > more random doesn't really help. >
Agreed, we can't avoid killing a process simply because it is in D state, this isn't an indication that the process will not be able to exit and in the worst case could panic the system if all other processes cannot be oom killed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
