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On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:30:59PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> The proposal also aims at much richer interface to define the
> oom behavior.

Oh yeah, I'm not defending any of that prctl() nonsense.

Just saying that from a math / control theory point of view, the current
thing is a abhorrent failure.