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


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