Re: [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3

[Chris Friesen]

Alan Cox wrote:
> The OOM killer is a heuristic. 

Sure, but presumably it's a bad thing for a user with no priorities to be able 
to lock up a machine by running two tasks?  I'm not complaining that its killing 
the wrong thing, I'm complaining that the machine locked up.

> Switch the machine to strict accounting
> and it'll kill or block memory access correctly.

I must be able to run an app that uses over 90% of system memory, and calls 
fork().  I was under the impression this made strict accounting unfeasable?

Chris
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