Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)

[Andrew Morton]

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FYI, I tried with 2.6 UP and PREEMPT=n. The result is more horrible. The
> box just gets stuck in an endless swap in/swap out and does not respond
> to anything else than SysRq-T and the reset button.

There's a patch in -mm which causes the oom-killer to be invoked each time
you hit sysrq-F, which sounds like a fine idea to me.

Unfortunately it calls the oom-killer from interrupt context, and I need to
fix that up before the patch goes any further.

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