Re: [patch] Re: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1

Roy Bixler (rcbixler@nyx.net)
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:43:09 -0600

Andrea Arcangeli chimed:
> I passed last night and this afternoon on the OOM problem. I
> discovered many problems in the current MM of 2.1.123.
>
> I developed a patch that fix all problems I can reproduce. With this
> my patch applyed I am not able to deadlock (or better persistence
> starvation) 2.1.123. Linux now is _always_ able to kill a process
> when _needed_.

Music to my ears. I just gave it a test under 2.1.124; when I
purposely ran out of memory under X, the system was still responcive
enough so that I was able to kill the offending process myself. I
still believe that an OOM killer could work, but in the meanwhile this
patch goes a long way.

Thanks!

-- 
Roy Bixler
rcbixler@nyx.net


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