Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:18:40 -0500 (CDT) | From | Shaun Wilson <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Re: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1 |
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, D. Schwingel wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Bill Hawes wrote: > > > > >Roy Bixler wrote: > > Logged in a VC and ran leak. > > Try to log into another VC and:
> /bin/login: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5' > INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > -------------------------------------- > > The system remained responsive (however I can say that it had the same > behaviour some kernel releases ago) but I wasn't able to run anything > > I could switch to the VC running leak an press ^C. > > The system is ok, I logged in, run xinit and I'm using netscape to write > this. > > Im starting to have doubts if the patch was applied correctly, but I > applied the patch, ran make dep and make bzImage. The timestamps seems > correct and the image was created ok. > > I'm not sure what's hapenning... > > Is this the expected behaviour?
This is how it SHOULD be working.
This leaves the job of administration up to the admin. He should be aware of when a program may have sucked up all available memory, and should decide when and if to kill that process.
Just as you had to do, personally that look s much better than a hung system yeah?
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