Re: oom killer in 2.4.23

From: Szakacsits Szabolcs
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 17:31:37 EST



On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Peter Bergmann wrote:

> I would be really glad if someone (aa may be :) could
> provide the information where/how to place the call for a custom
> (or the old) oom killer - if it's really that simple ...

In the 2.2 backport I called it from the page fault handler,

http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/reserved_root_memory.html

It worked fine for 2.2 but I don't know the current 2.4 VM state (without
the oom killer it's just running amok, as you experienced).

Szaka
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