On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote:
> I have Marcelo's patch. It isn't applicable because I am purposely not enabling any
> swap. The problem is the system gets down to about 7 megs of buffers free and within
> three seconds has become functionally dead. Zero response on any user input/output
> device save the magic key.
>
> The system will then grind the harddrive solid for about 25-30 minutes then
> everything will go silent.
>
> The brokenness is that the OOM code never activates.
Can you show the result of Alt+SysRq+M when the system is dead?
Thanks
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