On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Larry Woodman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 14:39 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> >
> > It recreates the old problem that we OOM while we still have memory
> > in other parts of the system.
>
> How, by the time we get here we have already decided we are going to
> OOMkill or panic. This change just obeys sysctl_panic_on_oom before
> killing current.
If you panic then there is no reason to kill current. Lets say you
have a 10 node system and the application attempt to allocate from node 8
which has no reclaimable memory then the application has a problem not the
system as a whole.
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