OOM Killer not invoked in MRG 1.2
Issue
- When under severe memory pressure system hangs due to OOM killer not being invoked.
- oom-killer takes too much time on bigger machines (~2h on a 32GB system) to take action and kill the memory consuming process.
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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MRG 1.2 kernels 2.6.24.x-xxx.el5rt kernels
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