Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Aug 1998 01:17:46 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: A true story of a crash. |
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Ian and Iris wrote:
> Fortunately, you had a window of "top" running. Curiously, you notice that > kswapd was on top, with 100 cpu. Then it hits you. A great big ZERO under the > "free" column for your swap space. You were out of swap. > > A though strikes you. You strike back. Then you realize what it was. The machine > Capital *MUST* have a way of coping when it runs out of memory. The machine did > NOT cope. > > Perhaps there is no support for the memory management subsystem? But it keeps > getting updates and patches. There must be SOMEONE working on this. To no avail > you search and search.
A diff for linux/MAINTAINERS (maybe in 2.1.116)
+MEMORY MANAGEMENT +L: linux-mm@kvack.org +W: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ +S: Maintained
And what's even better, I am the guy working on out-of-memory handling and the code is almost ready.
If you're lucky, the patch will be out by sunday :)
Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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