Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 7 Oct 2000 01:21:35 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:27:18PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:19:55PM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > 3. add the out of memory killer, which has been tuned with > > > -test9 to be ran at exactly the right moment; process > > > selection: "principle of least surprise" <== OOM handling > > I've tested v2.4.0test9+RielVMpatch now, together with the > memory_static program. It works terrific. No innocent process got > killed, just the offending one. And not until the memory was completely > depleted.
More tests conducted:
16MB memory, 32MB swapfile + 64MB swappartition (in that order) 16MB memory, 64MB swappartition + 32MB swapfile 16MB memory, 64MB swappartition 16MB memory, 32MB swapfile 16MB memory, NO swap
64MB memory, 256MB swappartition 64MB memory, NO swap
All survives just fine.
I can't do anything else while running the memory-eater program (this is via ssh; haven't tried locally), but when it finally gets killed, everything works ok again.
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