Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)

[Andrew Morton]

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 ?
> 

umm, in the same way you're using "SysRq-T and the reset button"?

You can issue sysrq commands over serial consoles too.
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