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.