Public bug reported: The trusty kernel can crash if the OOM killer kills processes which have reached a memory limit imposed by cgroups. More details can be found in this blog post:
https://community.nitrous.io/posts/stability-and-a-linux-oom-killer-bug The upstream patch series which ultimately landed in 3.14 is available at: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?id=4d4048be8a93769350efa31d2482a038b7de73d0&qt=range&q=9853a407b97d8d066b5a865173a4859a3e69fd8a...4d4048be8a93769350efa31d2482a038b7de73d0 One of those four (0c740d0afc3bff0a097ad03a1c8df92757516f5c) is already part of the trusty kernel. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa) Status: In Progress ** Tags: trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1592429 Title: trusty kernel crash in OOM killer related to cgroups To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1592429/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
