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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?

  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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