Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:41:44 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: VM in v2.4.0test9 |
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:31:13PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Running the included program on a clean v2.4.0test9 kernel I can > > hang the computer practically in no time. The only other > > [OUT OF MEMORY PROGRAM] > > > runnning process that can be of interest is dnetc. Running the > > same on a v2.2.xx kernel will just depleat the memory then kill > > the offending process, leaving everything nice and dandy. > > Handling out-of-memory in a clean and predictable way is the > next thing on the feature list. I'll add it RSN (I'm reasonably > sure now that the current VM features are stable ... time for > OOM handling). > > > What seems most strange is that the doesn't even get depleated. > > The machine still answers to SysRq and ping, but nothing else.
I missed out a swap above ("is that the swap doesn't")
> We do that on purpose. This would allow eg. swap-over-nbd > to send out TCP packets, even though all "normal" allocations > are blocked on low memory.
Mmmm, still, why doesn't it at least begin to swap?!
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