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> But still -- if the real memory shortage isn't because there's no place to 
> page out to, but rather that the process that's supposed to be writing the 
> pages is deadlocked, the OOM killer will not kick in.

I see your point now.  I'm still not sure that things can go as far as
to totally deadlock the system.  It can stop the writeback from
progressing, but killing the FUSE process still solves the problem.

Miklos