Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:02:53 +0100 |
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On Maw, 2004-10-12 at 06:03, Chris Friesen wrote: > > Switch the machine to strict accounting > > and it'll kill or block memory access correctly. > > I must be able to run an app that uses over 90% of system memory, and calls > fork(). I was under the impression this made strict accounting unfeasable?
Its rather smarter than that, you'll want swap probably. The strict accountant is a virtual address accountant not a memory accountant. It knows shared r/o segments don't need charging all the time etc
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