Re: OOM?

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 03:07:53 +0200 (CEST), 
Andrea Arcangeli <[e-mail]> wrote:
>If the deadlocked kernel had kdb linked into it, you only need to press
>PAUSE (or another key using serial console) to spawn kdb and examine the
>tasks. OOM deadlocks almost never happens with irq disabled so simple
>PAUSE is going to be enough.

With kdb v1.3 on SMP, a deadlock should trip the NMI watchdog and drop
into kdb after 5 seconds.  Even with irq disabled.