Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269320AbUIYM4J (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:56:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269321AbUIYM4J (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:56:09 -0400 Received: from bhhdoa.org.au ([216.17.101.199]:61957 "EHLO bhhdoa.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269320AbUIYM4G (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:56:06 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:54:59 +0300 (EAT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Borislav Petkov , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: OOM-killer killed everything In-Reply-To: <20040925124441.GM9106@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: References: <200409251326.13915.petkov@uni-muenster.de> <20040925124441.GM9106@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1219 Lines: 26 On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 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. The burning CD audio one is a known issue afaik, i've run into it before too. Zwane - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/