Re: Linux2.6 overcommit behaviour

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> It sends a SIGKILL (9) unless the process is doing raw io, in which case 
> it sends SIGTERM (15). It can't really wait - at this stage the kernel 
> is in trouble - it can either kill processes or panic. The whole idea of 
> strict accounting is not to let it get to this stage in the first place.
> 
> see mm/oom_kill.c

So it brings down all the backends --- I see. :-(

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