[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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Title:
Not enough memory to kill process
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
So I was running a process that had a memory leak (1.9 gb RAM) of which I was
unaware of, then I was starting up a virtual machine in VirtualBox.
My system runs out of memory and things go awry, VirtualBox gets into guru
meditation and crashes and the whole system gets unusable.
I try to kill VirtualBox to no avail.
$ killall virtualbox
bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory
I have no memory. So I try to free memory. But I can't free memory.
Because I have no memory.
So instead of greedily consuming every single little last byte of
memory, please reserve a couple of puny bytes so that I can run 'kill'
or 'killall' when things go awry.
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