Re: [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3

[Alan Cox]

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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