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SubjectRe: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...?
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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