Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote:

> I have Marcelo's patch.  It isn't applicable because I am purposely not enabling any
> swap.  The problem is the system gets down to about 7 megs of buffers free and within
> three seconds has become functionally dead.  Zero response on any user input/output
> device save the magic key.
> 
> The system will then grind the harddrive solid for about 25-30 minutes then
> everything will go silent.
> 
> The brokenness is that the OOM code never activates.

Can you show the result of Alt+SysRq+M when the system is dead?

Thanks