From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <petkov@uni-muenster.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OOM-killer killed everything
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 05:44:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040925124441.GM9106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409251326.13915.petkov@uni-muenster.de>
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> I just started burning an audio cd with cdrecord, ran it as root because of
> the SUID changes in 2.6.8 when this big bad guy by the name of OOM-killer
> appeared and started killing everything :) I don't know whether the spurious
> interrupt issue has something to do with it but according to what I've read
> on lkml about it until now, it is supposed to be quite harmless. Sysinfo
> + .config attached.
Usually I only get "Kernel panic: Out of memory and no killable processes..."
from local DoS testcases; I'd be surprised if anyone tripped over such
cases by accident unless they're doing something particularly stressful
(e.g. forking server with zillions of clients) or there's a
particularly outrageously offensive memory leak.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-25 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-25 11:26 OOM-killer killed everything Borislav Petkov
2004-09-25 12:12 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-25 12:44 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-09-25 12:54 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-25 12:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-25 13:50 ` Borislav Petkov
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