On 2019/03/29 6:37, Vincent Li wrote: > Hi, > > not sure if this is the right place, I tried to use echo f > > /proc/sysrq-trigger to manually trigger OOM, the OOM killer is > triggered to kill a process, does it make sense to trigger OOM killer > manually but not actually kill the process, this could be useful to > diagnosis problem without actually killing a process in production > box. Why not use "/usr/bin/top -o %MEM" etc. ? Reading from /proc will give you more information than from SysRq.