[Bug 1186] Changed - 2.4.1: OOM killer doesn't trigger

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http://distro.conectiva.com.br/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1186

--- shadow/1186	Thu Feb  1 13:32:16 2001
+++ shadow/1186.tmp.29340	Thu Feb  1 19:43:12 2001
@@ -16,3 +16,79 @@
 |                              DESCRIPTION                                   |
 for some reason, the OOM killer doesn't trigger under kernel versions 2.4.0 and
 2.4.1 ... obviously, this needs to be fixed.
\ No newline at end of file
+
+------- Additional Comments From roger.larsson@norran.net  2001-02-01 19:43 -------
+Not shure that this is the problem - it might be the execution of the OOM 
+killer causes the kernel to freeze.
+I am not running anything special.
+ KDE 2.1 beta 1, starting kmail quickly (not giving the ageing a chance...)
+ move around a little reading some messages, freeze.
+Today I succeeded in starting kmail and then switching virtual terminals doing
+some cat /proc/meminfo | tee -a meminfo.tee only seconds before freeze, 
+results like this (last one on file):
+
+        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
+Mem:  96931840 95182848  1748992        0 20283392 32808960
+Swap: 679100416    61440 679038976
+MemTotal:        94660 kB
+MemFree:          1708 kB
+MemShared:           0 kB
+Buffers:         19808 kB
+Cached:          32040 kB
+Active:          48632 kB
+Inact_dirty:      1116 kB
+Inact_clean:      2100 kB
+Inact_target:     1020 kB
+HighTotal:           0 kB
+HighFree:            0 kB
+LowTotal:        94660 kB
+LowFree:          1708 kB
+SwapTotal:      663184 kB
+SwapFree:       663124 kB  
+
+This one captured on paper.
+
+        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
+Mem:  96931840 95203328  1728512        0 19750912 31633408
+Swap: 679100416    61440 679038976
+MemTotal:        94660 kB
+MemFree:          1688 kB
+MemShared:           0 kB
+Buffers:         (missed) kB
+Cached:          30892 kB
+Active:          45776 kB
+Inact_dirty:      2312 kB
+Inact_clean:      2092 kB
+Inact_target:     1064 kB
+HighTotal:           0 kB
+HighFree:            0 kB
+LowTotal:        94660 kB
+LowFree:          1688 kB
+SwapTotal:      663184 kB
+SwapFree:       663124 kB  
+
+doing one right now gives
+
+        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
+Mem:  96931840 95686656  1245184        0  1630208 31776768
+Swap: 679100416 25690112 653410304
+MemTotal:        94660 kB
+MemFree:          1216 kB
+MemShared:           0 kB
+Buffers:          1592 kB
+Cached:          31032 kB
+Active:          23064 kB
+Inact_dirty:      7312 kB
+Inact_clean:      2248 kB
+Inact_target:       48 kB
+HighTotal:           0 kB
+HighFree:            0 kB
+LowTotal:        94660 kB
+LowFree:          1216 kB
+SwapTotal:      663184 kB
+SwapFree:       638096 kB                                                      
+
+Running with more on swap and fewer buffers.
+
+Note: system is completely frozen neither SysRQ nor Alt-Fx works...
+(interrupts disabled?)

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