Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265697AbUJLPZu (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:25:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265910AbUJLPZs (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:25:48 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:41179 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265697AbUJLPZM (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:25:12 -0400 Message-ID: <416BF72F.2080804@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:24:31 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 References: <41672D4A.4090200@nortelnetworks.com> <1097503078.31290.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <416B6594.5080002@nortelnetworks.com> <20041012052210.GW9106@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20041012052210.GW9106@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 731 Lines: 19 William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:03:16PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > >>I must be able to run an app that uses over 90% of system memory, and calls >>fork(). I was under the impression this made strict accounting unfeasable? > > > Not so. Just add enough swapspace to act as the backing store for the > aggregate anonymous virtualspace. In my first message I mentioned that I had no swap. It's embedded, so I do not have the ability to add swap. Chris - 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/