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

William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-12T16:28:37Z

>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?

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Not so. Just add enough swapspace to act as the backing store for the
>> aggregate anonymous virtualspace.

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:24:31AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> In my first message I mentioned that I had no swap. It's embedded, so I do
> not have the ability to add swap.

Then the closest thing to a good idea may be to enable overcommitment.
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to do that.

-- wli