Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: A true story of a crash. | | Date | Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:25:30 +0100 (BST) |
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> What if, instead of immediately sending SIGKILL, it sent a gradually > escalating series of signals, accompanied by suitable printk()s, over a > period of a few tens of seconds (stopping the process if enough memory > were freed), with SIGKILL only as a last resort?
On both out of memory and stack limit exceeded you can only send SIGKILL Think about what happens if you need to allocate a page of user stack..
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