* Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 01 December 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > maybe, but we'd have to see how often this gets triggered. An OOM is > > something that could happen in any overloaded system - while a hung task > > is likely due to a kernel bug. > > What about a client using hard mounted NFS shares here? That shouldn't > be killed by the OOM killer in that situation, should it?
NFS is a bit weird in this regard - fundamentally everything should be interruptible (or at least killable). Wont the TASK_KILLABLE solve these problems? Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/