>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.
To make an OOM killer to work you need my patch first and change the
force_sig() with OOM_killer().
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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