Hello, I have a process which eats all the memory available (buy making a loop of mallocs, writing and reading the malloc'd memory) called memoryEater (to torture test the memory system before going to a production system) My kernel is 2.4.2smp on a 4 way Alpha machine with 8 Go of RAM. When the process is launched under a user ID everything works the way it should, i.e. the malloc works fine until the process eats 7.8 Gbytes of RAM and then the process stops on a segfault. When the process is launched under the root ID, I see the OOM in the /var/log/messages saying it wants to kill this process (memoryEater) but it does not kill it. Hitting Control+C, kill PID -9 does not work. Halting the machine is my only solution. Any ideas ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Sebastien CABANIOLS COMPAQ France HPTC Engineer CustomSystems & Solutions Annecy High Performance Technical Computing Office No. +33 (0)4 50 09 44 10 Fax No. +33 (0)4 50 64 01 39 Email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
