At work I have the pleasure ;) of working with a 2.1.125 Linux box.
(Don't ask.) It has got two 130MB swap partitions and locked hard
(after some time of heavy swapping) when I ran your 'OutOfMem test
program'. I waited for about half an hour to see if the machine would
get out of the trap, but, alas, I had to find the reset button. (This
machine has never crashed on me before.)
-Looks like a DoS-attack problem.
-Does not seem to be very new. (2.1.125)
Max
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Bernd Kaindl wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've a test program here which can be used to check the different
> > behaviour of OOM situations in 2.0, 2.2 and 2.3 kernels.
> >
> Info: the machine I tested was single-PII-450Mhz, 128MB RAM, 128 MB swap
>
> New discovery:
>
> Having set up swap size <=128 MB (e.g. 128000 blocks) i've same good
> response with 2.2.10 as with 2.0.37 and 2.3.9pre8.
>
> Having set up swap size slightly more than 128 MB 2.2.10 hangs again.
>
> - Bernd
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