"Christian Bodmer" <cbinsec01@freesurf.ch> said:
> I can't say I understand the whole MM system, however the random killing
> of processes seems like a rather unfortunate solution to the problem. If
> someone has a spare minute, maybe they could explain to me why running
> out of free memory in kswapd results in a deadlock situation.
OOM is not "normal operations", it is a machine under very extreme stress,
and should *never* happen. To complicate (or even worse, slow down or
otherwise use up resources like memory) normal operations for "better
handling of OOM" is total nonsense.
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