From: Jeff D. <jd...@ad...> - 2007-05-12 08:58:32
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:06:00PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > Normally a forkbomb exhausts CPU faster than memory (because there is also > swap configured). With 32M or 64M of RAM and swap disabled, I get multiple > OOM. This might be better now with the irqstacks patchset I sent in. This was prompted by this problem (forks failing when there is free memory - just not enough contiguous to get a kernel stack). > > Is this some real bug or just as result of the forkbomb? > This is a warning I haven't had the time to investigate over. I haven't looked yet either, but it seems like a real bug. Jeff -- Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com |