Re: [PATCH 10 of 16] stop useless vm trashing while we wait the TIF_MEMDIE task to exit

Christoph Lameter
2007-06-08T21:48:15Z

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> There's no point in trying to free memory if we're oom.

OOMs can occur because we are in a cpuset or have a memory policy that
restricts the allocations. So I guess that OOMness is a per node property
and not a global one.