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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Srikrishnan Sundararajan <srikrishnan@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: oom_killer - Does not perform when stress-tested (system hangs)
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:07:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020807220733.GV6256@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFDE4A1CCD.14106609-ON65256C0E.0057D9B9@in.ibm.com>

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:31:21PM +0530, Srikrishnan Sundararajan wrote:
> I used a PC with Linux -2.4.7-10 (RH 7.2). RAM:128 MB, Swap: 256 MB. I run
> as an user and not as root.
> Is this expected behavior? Is it the responsibility of the user not to
> "fill" the memory? Could oom_killer not take care of such a stress-test?
> Should any thing warn the user when swap-space is full?

Can you reproduce this with 2.4.19, 2.4.19-ac, 2.4.19-rmap, or 2.5.30?


Thanks,
Bill
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-07 17:01 oom_killer - Does not perform when stress-tested (system hangs) Srikrishnan Sundararajan
2002-08-07 22:07 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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2002-08-15 17:02 Srikrishnan Sundararajan
2002-09-10  7:35 Srikrishnan Sundararajan
2002-09-10 16:07 ` William Lee Irwin III

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