Re: Kernel 2.6.29 runs out of memory and hangs.

From: Greg Stark
Date: Mon Apr 27 2009 - 09:35:52 EST


On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:55 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is work being done on a per-cgroup lowmem notifier which would allow
> userspace to poll() on a device file and be notified of low memory
> situations so that it can react on its own (like killing a low priority
> task, expanding a cpuset, increasing a memcontroller limit, etc.)

Surely anything that important ought to be running with overcommit
disabled anyways.
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