On 2022-12-03, Sven F. <sven.falem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bit sad the kernel stopped working thought.
AFAIK the main options available at that point are: deadlocks waiting for resources detect the problem and randomly kill processes (e.g. linux oom killer) detect the problem and panic There isn't really a lot else it could do, it has already done things like reduce buffer cache by this point (ok not 100% of cache in the top output you show, but a fair bit of it). Actually I was wrong with "Tweaking login.conf won't help"; you could reduce the max datasize to something that fits, to protect the machine. While this won't help actually run the software (in particular a lot of software really doesn't behave well when malloc fails), it might help avoid deadlocks. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
