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I know! In this case the OOM killer should kill the process that requested the XFS operation in the first place! To avoid deadlocks it should just KILL it not T
by IgorPartola 12y ago
I know! In this case the OOM killer should kill the process that requested the XFS operation in the first place! To avoid deadlocks it should just KILL it not TERM it. I don't see any problems with that solution :).
In all seriousness, wow. This is the type of thing really must hurt. It'll be interesting to see which path they choose.
- wereHamster 12y agoKILL doens't necessarily end the process. It may be stuck in uninterruptible state (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE).
- IgorPartola 12y agoYup, when it is waiting on the kernel, but in this case we know the entire context so the kernel can actually detect this and clean up properly.