On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:31:13PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote:
> >
> > > Running the included program on a clean v2.4.0test9 kernel I can
> > > hang the computer practically in no time. The only other
> >
> > [OUT OF MEMORY PROGRAM]
> >
> > > runnning process that can be of interest is dnetc. Running the
> > > same on a v2.2.xx kernel will just depleat the memory then kill
> > > the offending process, leaving everything nice and dandy.
> >
> > Handling out-of-memory in a clean and predictable way is the
> > next thing on the feature list. I'll add it RSN (I'm reasonably
> > sure now that the current VM features are stable ... time for
> > OOM handling).
> >
> > > What seems most strange is that the doesn't even get depleated.
> > > The machine still answers to SysRq and ping, but nothing else.
>
> I missed out a swap above ("is that the swap doesn't")
> > We do that on purpose. This would allow eg. swap-over-nbd
> > to send out TCP packets, even though all "normal" allocations
> > are blocked on low memory.
>
> Mmmm, still, why doesn't it at least begin to swap?!
Hmmm, that shouldn't happen. The box should continue to run
until swap has been depleted and memory is almost gone...
regards,
Rik
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