[LTP] [PATCH 1/1] min_free_kbytes: TCONF on errno ENOMEM, add break

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Mon May 25 11:02:08 CEST 2026


Hi!
> On machine with 16 GM RAM and ~6 GB swap fork() fails on ENOMEM.
> Treat that as TCONF.
>
> While at it, add missing break in case.

This looks suspicious. If we fail with the fork here that probably means
that the memory allocated by the previous iteration wasn't reclaimed
fast enough. Was this on a second or third iteration (we do three
iterations with different overcommit values)?

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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