From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d23rh901.au.ibm.com (d23rh901.au.ibm.com [9.185.167.100]) by ausmtp02.au.ibm.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g7FHFdK4356672 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 03:15:39 +1000 Received: from d23m0067.in.ibm.com (d23m0067.in.ibm.com [9.184.199.180]) by d23rh901.au.ibm.com (8.12.3/NCO/VER6.3) with ESMTP id g7FHICHV038666 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 03:18:13 +1000 Subject: Re: oom_killer - Does not perform when stress-tested (system hangs) Message-ID: From: "Srikrishnan Sundararajan" Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:32:56 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: I used kernel 2.4.19. This has a few changes in oom_kill.c . It works well on my intel PC. ie. Even when I run 500 instances of my memory grabbing program, the oom_killer is able to kill these errant processes and makes the machine usable. (No hangs) Hats off to oom_kill! Thanks, Srikrishnan -- 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/