Re: [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3

William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-12T05:22:30Z

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