Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262905AbUKRTQV (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:16:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262893AbUKRTPg (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:15:36 -0500 Received: from mail.euroweb.hu ([193.226.220.4]:16772 "HELO mail.euroweb.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262911AbUKRTMX (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:12:23 -0500 To: hbryan@us.ibm.com CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz, torvalds@osdl.org In-reply-to: (message from Bryan Henderson on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:49:34 -0800) Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace References: Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:12:17 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 668 Lines: 14 > But still -- if the real memory shortage isn't because there's no place to > page out to, but rather that the process that's supposed to be writing the > pages is deadlocked, the OOM killer will not kick in. I see your point now. I'm still not sure that things can go as far as to totally deadlock the system. It can stop the writeback from progressing, but killing the FUSE process still solves the problem. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/