> 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?
Or even in the R state, but that would only happen when there
is a kernel bug. The OOM killer can do nothing but hope for
the best and try another process if the first one doesn't want
to exit.
> Ok. Now I understand your patch. Thanks for the info.
>
> You should push your patch to Marcelo.
Will do.
cheers,
Rik
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