Re: oom - out of memory

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, David Kulp wrote:

>I have just the same problem with the same kernels: system hangs when
>one process requires more than total RAM.  I can't kill processes or
>otherwise get any response.  No syslog messages.  I don't know where
>to start to try to track down this problem -- but I thought monitoring
>this list would be a start.  Ironically -- considering the recent
>'ammo' thread, I had no trouble with this in FreeBSD.    )-:

I fixed a potential oom deadlock and some omm related bug in the VM at
2.2.10 time. Unfortunately it's not been merged in the stock kernel yet
(it also breaks all architectures and I fixed only i386 and Alpha as I
don't have access to other hardware).

Please apply this my fix and give us back any positive/negative feedback.

	ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/andrea/kernel-patches/2.2.12/oom-2.2.12-I

Thanks!

Andrea

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