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Date:   Wed, 4 Sep 2019 07:40:04 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: disable dump_tasks by default
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On Wed 04-09-19 05:52:43, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2019/09/03 23:45, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > It's primary purpose is
> > to help analyse oom victim selection decision.
> 
> I disagree, for I use the process list for understanding what / how many
> processes are consuming what kind of memory (without crashing the system)
> for anomaly detection purpose. Although we can't dump memory consumed by
> e.g. file descriptors, disabling dump_tasks() loose that clue, and is
> problematic for me.

Does anything really prevent you from enabling this by sysctl though? Or
do you claim that this is a general usage pattern and therefore the
default change is not acceptable or do you want a changelog to be
updated?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs