From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751610Ab1HIHGy (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2011 03:06:54 -0400 Received: from oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.8]:50999 "HELO oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751140Ab1HIHGx (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2011 03:06:53 -0400 Message-ID: <1db776d865939be598cdb80054cf5d93.squirrel@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <1312872786.70934.YahooMailNeo@web111712.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1312872786.70934.YahooMailNeo@web111712.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 00:06:53 -0700 Subject: Re: running of out memory => kernel crash From: "Randy Dunlap" To: "Mahmood Naderan" , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:program running on server} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, August 8, 2011 11:53 pm, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Hi > I have noticed that when the swap is disabled > > (either via swapoff or not defining any swap partition), > > then running out of memory can cause a kernel panic.  > > I wonder why the hungry application won't be killed > > upon a request for a resource that is not available? > In that case, the problematic application will be killed > only but what we see now is that the whole system is > crashed. Do you have any kernel log panic/oops/Bug messages? [adding linux-mm mailing list] -- ~Randy