On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 07:36:11 +0000
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> On 27/01/2020 19:04, Andy Burns wrote:
> > The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> >
> >> druck wrote:
> >>
> >>> In practice the system will appear to hang for a while, possibly a
> >>> long while, until applications which require more memory either exit
> >>> cleanly or crash, freeing up some memory and/or swap.
> >>
> >> Er no. calls to malloc() will fail and serious errors in applications
> >> will happen.

 Nope malloc succeeds and processes get a SEGV when they try to map
memory that can't be found.

> > Or the OOMK will "off" a greedy process or two :-(
> >
> thats a serious error

 That is the designed response to out of memory conditions on every
flavour of unix I know, what else would you suggest ?

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