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wereHamster
on Jan 23, 2015
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The “too small to fail” memory-allocation rule
KILL doens't necessarily end the process. It may be stuck in uninterruptible state (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE).
IgorPartola
on Jan 23, 2015
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Yup, when it is waiting on the kernel, but in this case we know the entire context so the kernel can actually detect this and clean up properly.
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