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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:07:35 +0200
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To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>, "James A. Sutherland" <jas88@cam.ac.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 01:32:42AM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:26:22PM +0000, James A. Sutherland wrote:
> > If SuSE's install program needs more than a quarter Gb of RAM, you need a
> > better distro.
> 
> Well, it's rpm ...

Yes. I investigated and found rpm's data base corrupted, and rpm cannot handle
that. Since I have several occurrences of rpm being killed by the oom killer
in my logs it is entirely possible that the data base got corrupted because
rpm was killed while in the process of updating it.


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