> I've been stressing the VM in 2.2.17pre9 with lots of malloc and
> mmap002 for about 15 minutes now, and it seems solid.
>
> The hard disk sounds just as if it was running windoze, but I
> still can log into the system. For info, this machine has 128 MB
> RAM and 136 MB swap. It's about 1 minute now that the swap is
> completely full (0 byte free), but still works.
>
> Aie, it seems I wrote this mail too quickly :-(
> it agreed to work during about 1 minute without any RAM nor swap free, but
> suddenly stuck. I've just caught the last messages which complain about
I have a patch here that should work and kill processes when we're
very much out of memoryy. Due to me being on Linuxtag I haven't
tested it though. Just let me know if you're interested in trying
some completely untested code ;)
Rik
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