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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Charles Forsyth wrote:

>
> Linux apparently takes the Atlas approach and thrashes on demand.
>

until it starts killing random processes. Usually the wrong one. But,
hey, heuristics, right?

I think I prefer 'no swap and panic' to 'kill random processes'. I can't
differentiate between OOM killer and uncorrectable ECC errors.

Of course, the kill on no memory guck is now appearing in other places:
I can't build the myrinet tools on my machine any more, as this symbol
is not found:
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_out_of_memory@GLIBC_PRIVATE'

oh yea. I'm loving those versioned symbols more than ever.

ron