From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263781AbTDXS2i (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263788AbTDXS2i (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Received: from watch.techsource.com ([209.208.48.130]:21238 "EHLO techsource.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263781AbTDXS2i (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA83396.4040904@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:57:26 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Strange behavior in out-of-memory situation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm using Red Hat kernel 2.4.18-26.7.x. I ran a program which is trying to suck up all of memory. I would like to kill the process, but "top", "vmstat", and "ps" all hang when I try to use them. Also, pressing ctrl-c in the terminal where I can the program won't kill it. To an extent, however, the system was still usable, albeit EXTREMELY unresponsive. Eventually, the program dumped core, and everything returned to norma. Is this a known problem?