Re: A true story of a crash.
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:25:30 +0100 (BST)
> What if, instead of immediately sending SIGKILL, it sent a gradually
> escalating series of signals, accompanied by suitable printk()s, over a
> period of a few tens of seconds (stopping the process if enough memory
> were freed), with SIGKILL only as a last resort?
On both out of memory and stack limit exceeded you can only send SIGKILL
Think about what happens if you need to allocate a page of user stack..
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