On Mon, August 8, 2011 11:53 pm, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Hi > I have noticed that when the swap is disabled > > (either via swapoff or not defining any swap partition), > > then running out of memory can cause a kernel panic. > > I wonder why the hungry application won't be killed > > upon a request for a resource that is not available? > In that case, the problematic application will be killed > only but what we see now is that the whole system is > crashed. Do you have any kernel log panic/oops/Bug messages? [adding linux-mm mailing list] -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>