Hi; Is there any documentation on the out of memory killer for the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel. My questions are: 1) can the task requesting memory itself be killed? 2) Is there any way to tell the OOM not to kill a particular task? Thanks Ed __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/