Re: running of out memory => kernel crash

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?

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