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Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:44:51 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill.c: don't kill TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks
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On 09/19, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> This has been posted in various forms many times over past years. I
> still do not think this is a right approach of dealing with the problem.

Agreed. But still I think it makes sense to try to kill another task
if the victim refuse to die. Yes, the details are not clear to me.

Oleg.