Re: [patch 5/5] oom: invoke OOM killer from pagefault handler

[Nick Piggin]

Nick Piggin wrote:

> What I especially have in mind here is the OOM_DISABLE and 
> panic_on_oom sysctl
> rather than expecting particularly much better general oom killing 
> behaviour.
> Suppose you have a critical failover node or heartbeat process or 
> something
> where you'd rather the system to panic and reboot instead of doing 
> something
> silly...


Oh, I already said that.

Well anyway, I'm not sure exactly how people use these tunables, but I 
expect
those that do, _really_ want them to work.

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