linux-kernel - Re: Out of memory management in embedded systems

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Message-Id: <200709281859.18275.phillips@phunq.net>
Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:59:18 -0700
From:	Daniel Phillips <phillips@...nq.net>
To:	"Daniel Spång" <daniel.spang@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of memory management in embedded systems

On Friday 28 September 2007 05:55, Daniel Spång wrote:
> Applications with dynamic input and dynamic memory usage have some
> issues with the current overcommitting kernel. A high memory usage
> situation eventually results in that a process is killed by the OOM
> killer. This is especially evident in swapless embedded systems with
> limited memory and no swap available.

In order to earn the right to fix this problem by inventing new Linux, 
first you need to post a traceback and a cat of /proc/meminfo to prove 
the OOM is a true one, as opposed to a second order effect of a 
writeout lockup.

Regards,

Daniel
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