In the summer, there was a thread about the inability of the kernel to gracefully handle low memory: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/cmg48b/lets_talk_about_the_elephant_in_the_room_the/
The time has come to demonstrate the elegant solution in user space: https://youtu.be/G0FYDIKVPYI
The problem: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/4/15.
The solution: https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang.
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