From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:22:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041012052210.GW9106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416B6594.5080002@nortelnetworks.com>
Alan Cox wrote:
>> The OOM killer is a heuristic.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:03:16PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Sure, but presumably it's a bad thing for a user with no priorities to be
> able to lock up a machine by running two tasks? I'm not complaining that
> its killing the wrong thing, I'm complaining that the machine locked up.
Alan Cox wrote:
>> Switch the machine to strict accounting
>> and it'll kill or block memory access correctly.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:03:16PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> I must be able to run an app that uses over 90% of system memory, and calls
> fork(). I was under the impression this made strict accounting unfeasable?
Not so. Just add enough swapspace to act as the backing store for the
aggregate anonymous virtualspace.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-12 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-09 0:14 [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 Chris Friesen
2004-10-09 0:26 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-11 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-12 5:03 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 5:22 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-10-12 15:24 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 16:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-12 9:44 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-12 15:32 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 20:08 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-12 20:41 ` [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 -- FIXED in -rc4 Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 20:54 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-12 21:02 ` [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 Alan Cox
2004-10-12 22:25 ` Chris Friesen
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