Re: 2.0.30: Lockups with huge proceses mallocing all VM

[Hans-Joachim Baader]

In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>The point isn't that the application wants to eat too much VM.
>The point is that the whole system COLLAPSES when the application
>does so.

This is, of course, a bug. It could be exploited for denial of service
attacks and whatever.

You might want to look at 2.0.32 or 2.0.29 but I don't know if the
problem is present in those kernels too.

hjb
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