Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2022 17:54:07 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/13] mm: shmem: provide oom badness for shmem files |
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On Thu 09-06-22 17:22:14, Christian König wrote: [...] > Those files were never part of any filesystem in the first place, so by > killing all the process referencing them you can indeed free the memory > locked by them.
Yes, this would require the oom killer to understand that all processes referencing that file are killed. Theoretically possible but I am not sure a feasible solution. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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