On 2022-12-03, Sven F. <sven.falempin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bit sad the kernel stopped working thought.
AFAIK the main options available at that point are:
deadlocks waiting for resources
detect the problem and randomly kill processes (e.g. linux oom killer)
detect the problem and panic
There isn't really a lot else it could do, it has already done things
like reduce buffer cache by this point (ok not 100% of cache in the top
output you show, but a fair bit of it).
Actually I was wrong with "Tweaking login.conf won't help"; you could
reduce the max datasize to something that fits, to protect the machine.
While this won't help actually run the software (in particular a lot
of software really doesn't behave well when malloc fails), it might
help avoid deadlocks.
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