Taming the OOM killer

Posted Jul 17, 2014 14:22 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Taming the OOM killer by nix
Parent article: Taming the OOM killer

> other than to 'pre-expand' the stack with a bunch of do-nothing function calls early in execution, and hope like hell you expanded it enough

Also that you don't expand it too much and crash in your stack_balloon function.