From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:48:17 +0000 Message-ID: <20071020094817.GA7271@ucw.cz> References: <200710112011.22000.rob@landley.net> <200710150304.00901.rob@landley.net> <200710152337.45252.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200710150452.30939.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:1667 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752871AbXJTJtB (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:49:01 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200710150452.30939.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Rob Landley Cc: Nick Piggin , Theodore Tso , James Bottomley , Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Suparna Bhattacharya , Nick Piggin Hi! > > Would an oom-kill-someone-now sysrq be of help, I wonder? > > *shrug* It might. I was a letting it run hoping it would complete itself when sysrq-f, IIRC. > it locked solid. (The keyboard LEDs weren't flashing, so I don't _think_ it > paniced. I was in X so I wouldn't have seen a message...) > > (To be honest, I can never remember how to trigger sysrq on a laptop keyboard. > Presumably X won't intercept it the way it does alt-f1 and ctrl-alt-del...) sysrq works even in X, and should be pressable on todays laptop keyboards... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html