Bart Verwilst a.k.a Bort :: Blog » kernel http://blog.verwilst.be Linux, Open Source. That's pretty much it. Wed, 05 May 2010 09:02:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Avoiding OOM’s with mem_notify http://blog.verwilst.be/2008/02/07/avoiding-ooms-with-mem_notify/ http://blog.verwilst.be/2008/02/07/avoiding-ooms-with-mem_notify/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:10:59 +0000 Bart Verwilst http://weblog.verwilst.be/2008/02/07/avoiding-ooms-with-mem_notify/ Once in a while you come across something that spontaneously triggers a pleasantly-surprised “hmmmm!”.

This is one of those things that triggered it right away :) Java apps/jvm’s should be polling that sucker franticly ;)

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But even the mightiest warrior has a soft spot. The Linux kernel in particular is just terrified of the letter ‘c’.

Meaning you can force a kernel to panic by just doing the following:

# echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

Great for testing, not recommended in production ;)

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