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On 13.11.2010, Arno Wagner wrote: 

> I don't know what criteria lead to activation of the OOM killer,
[....]

How do you know it gets OOM-killed?

As a workaround, one could have set "vm.overcommit_memory = 1"
in /etc/sysctl.conf in this case..