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

[Tetsuo Handa]

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.