kernel killing processes when out of swap

Marc Olzheim marcolz at stack.nl
Tue Apr 12 11:17:31 PDT 2005


On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:46:45PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> There is no "large process detection".  The first process that tries
> to fault in a new page after the system runs out of swap gets killed.

Are you suggesting that vm_pageout_pmap_collect() is no longer in use ?

That has a FOREACH_PROC_IN_SYSTEM(p) ... find biggest unlocked ...
kill-kill-kill...

Marc
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