[ale] Memory issue

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

I'm running into a problem in 2.6.38 where the kernel is not doing what
I'm expecting it to do.  I'm guessing that some things have changed and
that is what it going on.


	f.open("/proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom", std::ios::out);
	f << "1";
	f.close();

	f.open("/proc/sys/kernel/panic", std::ios::out);
	f << "10";
	f.close();

I want the kernel to panic on out of memory.  I then want it to wait 10s
before doing a reboot.

This program will consume all memory and make the box unresponsive

#!/usr/bin/perl

my @mem = ()
while(1) {
  push @mem, "########################";
}

It does not take long to fill up 1G of space.  There is NO swap on this
device and never will be.

Chris