Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 11:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > FYI, I tried with 2.6 UP and PREEMPT=n. The result is more horrible. The
> > box just gets stuck in an endless swap in/swap out and does not respond
> > to anything else than SysRq-T and the reset button.
> 
> There's a patch in -mm which causes the oom-killer to be invoked each time
> you hit sysrq-F, which sounds like a fine idea to me.

Can you please explain, how I can hit sysrq-F when I can't log into the
remote machine ?

tglx


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