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Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4

From Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4
Date 2016-02-04 14:20 +0100
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Michal Hocko wrote:
> I am not sure we can fix these pathological loads where we hit the
> higher order depletion and there is a chance that one of the thousands
> tasks terminates in an unpredictable way which happens to race with the
> OOM killer.

When I hit this problem on Dec 24th, I didn't run thousands of tasks.
I think there were less than one hundred tasks in the system and only
a few tasks were running. Not a pathological load at all.

I'm running thousands of tasks only for increasing the possibility
in the reproducer.

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Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-02-03 14:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2016-02-04 00:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-02-04 14:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2016-02-04 14:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-02-04 14:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-02-04 15:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2016-02-07 05:20 +0100

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