Charles Forsyth wrote:
Linux apparently takes the Atlas approach and thrashes on demand.
until it starts killing random processes. Usually the wrong one. But, hey, heuristics, right?
I think I prefer 'no swap and panic' to 'kill random processes'. I can't differentiate between OOM killer and uncorrectable ECC errors.
Of course, the kill on no memory guck is now appearing in other places: I can't build the myrinet tools on my machine any more, as this symbol is not found:
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' oh yea. I'm loving those versioned symbols more than ever. ron
