Re: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 3 Oct 1998 19:02:11 +0100 (BST)


> Can you send a pointer to a "buggy app" that illustrates the problem?

Just about anything seems to work here

> OOM killers are dangerous and I'd like to think we can find a better
> solution.

2.0.x deadlocks on oom if swap < memory and the wind is in the wrong direction
2.1.x currently deadlocks for me at least when you run right out of space
pretty much relaibly

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