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Re: oom_killer - Does not perform when stress-tested (system hangs)

To: Srikrishnan Sundararajan <srikrishnan@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: oom_killer - Does not perform when stress-tested (system hangs)
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:07:33 -0700
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:31:21PM +0530, Srikrishnan Sundararajan wrote:
> I used a PC with Linux -2.4.7-10 (RH 7.2). RAM:128 MB, Swap: 256 MB. I run
> as an user and not as root.
> Is this expected behavior? Is it the responsibility of the user not to
> "fill" the memory? Could oom_killer not take care of such a stress-test?
> Should any thing warn the user when swap-space is full?

Can you reproduce this with 2.4.19, 2.4.19-ac, 2.4.19-rmap, or 2.5.30?


Thanks,
Bill
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