From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
To: Josh Goldsmith <joshin@hotmail.com>
Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:33:24 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474B50BC.5030108@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU103-DAV9F8A12C3BFA4AAAC0B7B4D6750@phx.gbl>
Josh Goldsmith wrote:
> David: The exact command this time was a "tar jxf
> linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2" as part of an emerge (gentoo). Gnu tar version
> 1.18 but has happened with prior versions too. I replicated it after
> my post by manually untarring it on the command line and can almost
> always replicate the problem with any large (GCC/kernel) tarball. If
> I shut down all other processes, the untar will go longer but
> eventually the oom-killer will be invoked.
Into which directory were you extracting the files?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-26 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-25 22:02 Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts Josh Goldsmith
2007-11-26 11:57 ` David Newall
2007-11-26 17:48 ` Josh Goldsmith
2007-11-26 23:03 ` David Newall [this message]
2007-11-27 1:17 ` ming lei
2007-11-27 9:29 ` Oliver Neukum
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-25 22:55 Mikael Pettersson
2007-11-26 5:28 ` Josh Goldsmith
2007-11-26 16:55 ` Pavel Machek
2007-11-26 8:47 Mikael Pettersson
2007-11-27 1:47 Ian Kumlien
2007-11-27 3:50 Josh Goldsmith
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