From: "Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood@yahoo.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: running of out memory => kernel crash
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 00:06:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1db776d865939be598cdb80054cf5d93.squirrel@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312872786.70934.YahooMailNeo@web111712.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
On Mon, August 8, 2011 11:53 pm, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> Hi
> I have noticed that when the swap is disabled
>
> (either via swapoff or not defining any swap partition),
>
> then running out of memory can cause a kernel panic.
>
> I wonder why the hungry application won't be killed
>
> upon a request for a resource that is not available?
> In that case, the problematic application will be killed
> only but what we see now is that the whole system is
> crashed.
Do you have any kernel log panic/oops/Bug messages?
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2011-08-09 7:06 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
[not found] ` <1312874259.89770.YahooMailNeo@web111704.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
2011-08-09 16:03 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-10 8:14 ` Mahmood Naderan
2011-08-11 4:09 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-11 7:07 ` Mahmood Naderan
2011-08-11 7:13 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-11 8:02 ` Mahmood Naderan
2011-08-11 12:47 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-08-11 15:13 ` Mahmood Naderan
2011-08-11 17:38 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-08-17 8:50 ` Mahmood Naderan
2011-08-18 2:18 ` Pavel Ivanov
2011-08-18 12:44 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-08-18 14:26 ` Pavel Ivanov
2011-08-18 22:25 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-08-19 19:21 ` David Rientjes
2011-08-19 19:29 ` Bryan Donlan
2011-08-19 21:19 ` Chris Friesen
2011-08-19 21:38 ` Alan Cox
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