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From: David Mansfield <david@cobite.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@imladris.surriel.com>
Cc: David Mansfield <lkml@dm.cobite.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Subject: Re: oom killer and its superior braindamage in 2.4
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:22:11 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302231519520.23778-100000@admin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50L.0302231711500.2206-100000@imladris.surriel.com>

> 
> > If you read my post, the bug is that the kernel CANNOT kill that
> > process?  Why?  If it's really a bad process, shouldn't it be the one
> > that gets killed?
> 
> > This is my question, and I don't see how the patch addresses it.
> 
> And you won't see one, either.  You cannot change the
> semantics of uninterruptible sleep, nor can the OOM
> killer change other device driver things.

So you're saying that a process can stay in the D state, without ever 
getting enough resources to complete a single Uninteruptible wait, for 
hours at a time?

Ok.  Now I understand your patch.  Thanks for the info.

You should push your patch to Marcelo. 

Thanks,
David

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-23 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-23 16:06 David Mansfield
2003-02-23 16:25 ` Faik Uygur
2003-02-23 16:25 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-23 18:07   ` David Mansfield
2003-02-23 20:14     ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-23 20:22       ` David Mansfield [this message]
2003-02-23 20:53         ` Rik van Riel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-24  9:13 Mikael Starvik
2003-02-24  9:27 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-22 19:35 Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-22 20:14 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-22 20:32   ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-23 17:35     ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-23 20:18       ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-23 20:29         ` Marc-Christian Petersen

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