On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:40:43PM -0700, Nicolas Bock wrote: > I think I have ruled out now that this is a hard crash. I have 8GB of > physical memory and another 8GB as swap. I allocated 10GB in a C > program and after it had written to about 7GB or so, the system > froze. But after maybe 20 minutes the system got unstuck and had > killed the job. Since I am on amd64, I am not sure why the job got > killed, it should certainly have had enough memory to write to. I don't know what criteria lead to activation of the OOM killer, but I use one application that allocates up to 150 MB of memory, but never uses (accesses) it. This app runs fine in a qemu with 16MB RAM and 200MB swap. It is possible that your process gets killed, if it uses more memory than the larger of swap and main memory. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
