Re: [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 -- FIXED in -rc4

Chris Friesen
2004-10-12T20:41:44Z

Chris Wright wrote:

> Chris, did you try the patch I sent you (it's in mainline now, so if you
> re-test on 2.6.9-rc4 you'd pick it up)?

Oops. No I didn't--meant to, but then forgot. I should have, it seems to be
fixed in -rc4.

> With that patch, with 2G of
> memory and no swap, my machine did not lock up, and the conditions that
> the patch protect against were triggered. And, with the patch backed
> out, kswapd spins out of control. I believe this is fixed.

2.6.9-rc4 seems sane again. Start up two memory hogs, one gets killed immediately.

Sweet.

Thanks for your help,

Chris