Re: OOM datapoint 2.3.45

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:

>I accidentally oomed my box running Christopher Rolands shmtst, and
>it started swap looping.  I've seen this same looping before, and

Verify shmtst deletes the segments after having attached them so that if
the task gets killed the memory released as well.

Then you may want to try this patch:

	ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.3/2.3.42/oom-2.gz

Andrea