Re: OOM?

From: David Whysong (dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 14:34:31 EST


On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Compile in the softdog driver and run the softdog daemon.

Alan, this is a workaround but not a good solution. And neither are
ulimits. The fact that running OOM crashes the kernel is the longest
standing kernel bug I know of.

Isn't anyone interested in fixing it?

Dave

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