Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:06:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:06:35 -0400 Received: from 2-028.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.28]:58774 "EHLO 2-028.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:06:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:11:14 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: "Timothy D. Witham" cc: Helge Hafting , Subject: Re: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited In-Reply-To: <1032202163.1458.351.camel@wookie-t23.pdx.osdl.net> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 27 On 16 Sep 2002, Timothy D. Witham wrote: > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 07:03, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > 1) memory is exhausted > > > > 2) the network driver can't allocate memory and > > > > spits out a message > > > > 3) syslogd and/or klogd get killed > Not in what I had described. Unless the page fault was for a new page > (just malloc'ed) it wouldn't result in the killing of the process. Unfortunately they do. Reality doesn't quite match your description. Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/