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Rozycki wrote: > We aim not to set a policy either, but at this point we have become aware > the CPU is in a bad state, so I think at the very least there needs to be > a way for the site manager to configure handling according to their needs, > and I think it should be killing the system by default. For people who care that much about this, they likely are running huge fleets and already have daemons/agents(sic) which are monitoring dmesg and are taking actions accordingly. So that use case is not lost.