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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by LgWoodenBadger on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:07AM (#20625274)
Would it be possible for the kernel to suspend the process in scenarios where malloc would fail instead of returning a failure? Either until enough becomes available for it to succeed, or until something tells the kernel to renew/revive/resume the process and try the malloc again?
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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by rtkwe on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:12AM (#20625302)
It could but if that process is using most of a systems memory that will lock up forever because while the process is frozen it won't release any of it's memory.
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