On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:34:06PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > Using current BK on my x86-64 workstation, it went completely nuts today > killing tasks left and right with oodles of free memory available.
Yes, the fact that the oom-killer exists is a serious problem. People work on trying to tune it, instead of just removing it. I am getting reports that also in overcommit mode 2 (no overcommit, no oom-killer ever needed) processes are killed by the oom-killer (on 2.6.10). Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
