Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 16:03:03 EST

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    > The process isn't just killed. It dumps core (the default behavior of
    > receiving SIGSEGV according to signal(7)). Which is icing on the cake
    > here.

    Not always. If there is no memory to grow the stack the signal cannot be
    delivered and it gets SIGKILL

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