Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 1997 11:25:29 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chris Griffin <> | Subject | Out of memory kernel death |
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A small question? How should linux react when a run-away process attempts to grab all the memory? I had such an occurance today. Because of STUPID PROGRAMMING ERROR Technology(tm) I had a job that went into an allocation loop and grabbed all the memory. As soon as every little bit of swap was used up the system froze and I got a "kernel: unable to load interpretor". Is this the proper/planned behavior in this case? I would think either the process would die with an unable to get free page error, or the kernel would oops with the same problem and reset. I am using kernel 2.0.30 / libc5.3.12 on an SMP enabled p6dnf 2x200mhz ppro system. BTW: ps reported the process was in an uninteruptable sleep state (I suppose because of the memory allocation loop) so I couldn't kill it :(
thanks Chris
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