Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:48:17 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?) |
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Hi!
> > Would an oom-kill-someone-now sysrq be of help, I wonder? > > *shrug* It might. I was a letting it run hoping it would complete itself when
sysrq-f, IIRC.
> it locked solid. (The keyboard LEDs weren't flashing, so I don't _think_ it > paniced. I was in X so I wouldn't have seen a message...) > > (To be honest, I can never remember how to trigger sysrq on a laptop keyboard. > Presumably X won't intercept it the way it does alt-f1 and ctrl-alt-del...)
sysrq works even in X, and should be pressable on todays laptop keyboards... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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