Hi MM-people, How do you/we test the error paths when the system runs out of memory? What kind of tools do you use? or Any tricks to provoke this? For testing my recent change to the SLUB allocator, I've implemented a crude kernel module that tries to allocate all memory, so I can test the error code-path in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk. see: https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/kernel/mm/slab_bulk_test04_exhaust_mem.c -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>