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From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
To: Josh Goldsmith <joshin@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:27:23 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474AB4A3.8050802@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU103-DAV550703C13BE5EF0DDF51AD6740@phx.gbl>

Josh Goldsmith wrote:
> The problem comes when I try to untar a large file (in this case 
> linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2).  Regardless if I kill off every other process, 
> eventually the oom-killer will appear and kill either the tar or the 
> shell.

What's the actual command you are executing?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-26 11:57 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 [this message]
2007-11-26 17:48   ` Josh Goldsmith
2007-11-26 23:03     ` David Newall
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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