Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:57:26 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Strange behavior in out-of-memory situation |
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I'm using Red Hat kernel 2.4.18-26.7.x.
I ran a program which is trying to suck up all of memory. I would like to kill the process, but "top", "vmstat", and "ps" all hang when I try to use them. Also, pressing ctrl-c in the terminal where I can the program won't kill it.
To an extent, however, the system was still usable, albeit EXTREMELY unresponsive. Eventually, the program dumped core, and everything returned to norma.
Is this a known problem?
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