Re: OOM killer kicks in after minutes or never

[Marcin Szewczyk <Marcin.Szewczyk@wodny.org>]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 07:27:14AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> +CC so this doesn't get lost
> 
> On 21.12.2015 13:35, Marcin Szewczyk wrote:
> > In 2010 I noticed that viewing many GIFs in a row using gpicview renders
> > my Linux unresponsive. There is very little I can do in such a
> > situation. Rarely after some minutes the OOM killer kicks in and saves
> > the day. Nevertheless, usually I end up using Alt+SysRq+B.

Hi,

I thought that due to high throughput of the linux-kernel mailing list
my email will not get a reply if it didn't happen in a day so I allowed
myself to write another email to linux-mm as well as it was suggested to
me on #debian-kernel.

The email is here:
Subject: Exhausting memory makes the system unresponsive but doesn't
  invoke OOM killer
Message-ID: <20151223143109.GC3519@orkisz>
http://marc.info/?t=145088116000002&r=1&w=2

I have also updated the description in the repository:
https://github.com/wodny/crasher

Contrary to my original suspicion the OOM killer doesn't need much time
to clean up, it just isn't invoked. Johannes Weiner explained the
probable cause to me in a response in the linux-mm thread.


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