On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Jeff Davis wrote: > involved, but I could be wrong. Is it possible to be hit by the OOM > killer if no applications use fork()?
Sure, whenever the system is out of mem and the os can't find a free page then it kills a process. If you check the kernel log you can see if the oom killer have been doing some work. -- /Dennis Björklund ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly