Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Memory management in Kernel 2.4.x | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 27 May 2002 16:25:56 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 14:45, Peter Wächtler wrote: > There is still the oom killer (Out Of Memory). > But it doesn't trigger and the machine pages "forever". > Usually kswapd eats the CPU then, discarding and reloading pages, > searching lists for pages to evict and so on.
On a -ac kernel with mode 2 or 3 set for overcommit you have to run out of kernel resources to hang the box. It won't go OOM because it can't. That wouldn't be a VM bug but a leak or poor handling of kernel allocations somewhere. Sadly the changes needed to do that (beancounter patch) were things Linus never accepted for 2.4
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