Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Mar 2000 01:52:16 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...? |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > The process isn't just killed. It dumps core (the default behavior of > > receiving SIGSEGV according to signal(7)). Which is icing on the cake > > here. > > Not always. If there is no memory to grow the stack the signal cannot be > delivered and it gets SIGKILL
Sounds like a deficiency. Not the SIGKILL -- that's fine. But it should still try to dump core. That might work, if you ran out of stack due to a user resource limit because the limit doesn't prevent the core dump from working.
-- Jamie
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