Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:07:29 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core) |
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Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > FYI, I tried with 2.6 UP and PREEMPT=n. The result is more horrible. The > box just gets stuck in an endless swap in/swap out and does not respond > to anything else than SysRq-T and the reset button.
There's a patch in -mm which causes the oom-killer to be invoked each time you hit sysrq-F, which sounds like a fine idea to me.
Unfortunately it calls the oom-killer from interrupt context, and I need to fix that up before the patch goes any further.
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