Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:48:17 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
       James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
       Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
       Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Subject: Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?)
Message-ID: <20071020094817.GA7271@ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> > Would an oom-kill-someone-now sysrq be of help, I wonder?
> 
> *shrug* It might.  I was a letting it run hoping it would complete itself when 

sysrq-f, IIRC.

> it locked solid.  (The keyboard LEDs weren't flashing, so I don't _think_ it 
> paniced.  I was in X so I wouldn't have seen a message...)
> 
> (To be honest, I can never remember how to trigger sysrq on a laptop keyboard.  
> Presumably X won't intercept it the way it does alt-f1 and ctrl-alt-del...)

sysrq works even in X, and should be pressable on todays laptop
keyboards...
							Pavel
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