Hang when using cgroup memory limits and OOM killer

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

A system using more threads than processor cores and cgroup memory limits which invokes the Out-Of-Memory-(OOM) killer is seen to hang.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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