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kernel: Applications invoking oom-killer and those killed by it are not the same

#53 kernel: Applications invoking oom-killer and those killed by it are not the same

Milestone: v7.5.0

Status: closed-accepted

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2016-10-15

Created: 2016-08-03

Creator: Marcin Szewczyk

Private: No

Commit 89b1a9844ccb910595444641948121fdeb370350 does not seem to make sense. Kernel messages containing the "<someapp> invoked oom-killer" phrase do not mean that someapp has been killed. This was just the application that hit the OOM condition. In this context the "WARNING: Out of memory killer killed these executables" message is just wrong.</someapp>

BTW, the message should say "WARNING: Out of memory killer killed these executables or their children" because the oom-killer can kill the process with the highest score or "sacrifice child".

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Marcin Szewczyk - 2016-08-03

Also see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833350

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Bjorn - 2016-10-15

status: open --> closed-accepted
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Bjorn - 2016-10-15

Fixed in commit 6915e5184178ed9e3f6e1a29cacb29389417e326. Thanks for reporting.

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