From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:07:33 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: oom_killer - Does not perform when stress-tested (system hangs) Message-ID: <20020807220733.GV6256@holomorphy.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Srikrishnan Sundararajan Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:31:21PM +0530, Srikrishnan Sundararajan wrote: > I used a PC with Linux -2.4.7-10 (RH 7.2). RAM:128 MB, Swap: 256 MB. I run > as an user and not as root. > Is this expected behavior? Is it the responsibility of the user not to > "fill" the memory? Could oom_killer not take care of such a stress-test? > Should any thing warn the user when swap-space is full? Can you reproduce this with 2.4.19, 2.4.19-ac, 2.4.19-rmap, or 2.5.30? Thanks, Bill -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/