Re: Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage

Jeffrey W. Baker (jwbaker@acm.org)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:05:27 -0700 (PDT)


On 2 Aug 2001, Miles Lane wrote:

> Hmm. What about the OOM process killer? Shouldn't that kick in?

You'd think so! Maybe it stepped in and killed the kernel :) You can't
get any information out of the machine in this state because it isn't
classic thrashing: the disks aren't running, and regular processes are
getting run VERY infrequently.

-jwb

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