Strange behavior in out-of-memory situation

Timothy Miller (miller@techsource.com)
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:57:26 -0400


I'm using Red Hat kernel 2.4.18-26.7.x.

I ran a program which is trying to suck up all of memory. I would like
to kill the process, but "top", "vmstat", and "ps" all hang when I try
to use them. Also, pressing ctrl-c in the terminal where I can the
program won't kill it.

To an extent, however, the system was still usable, albeit EXTREMELY
unresponsive. Eventually, the program dumped core, and everything
returned to norma.

Is this a known problem?

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