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

[Chris Wright]

* Chris Friesen (cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> However, isn't it a bad thing that a vanilla 2.6.9-rc3 can be totally locked up 
> by an unpriviledged user by running two tasks?

Chris, did you try the patch I sent you (it's in mainline now, so if you
re-test on 2.6.9-rc4 you'd pick it up)?  With that patch, with 2G of
memory and no swap, my machine did not lock up, and the conditions that
the patch protect against were triggered.  And, with the patch backed
out, kswapd spins out of control.  I believe this is fixed.

thanks,
-chris
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