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

Chris Friesen
2004-10-12T05:03:26Z

Alan Cox wrote:
> The OOM killer is a heuristic.

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.

> Switch the machine to strict accounting
> and it'll kill or block memory access correctly.

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?

Chris