Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269373AbUIYM5r (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:57:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269422AbUIYM5q (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:57:46 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:47592 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269373AbUIYM5N (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:57:13 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 05:57:07 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Borislav Petkov , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: OOM-killer killed everything Message-ID: <20040925125707.GO9106@holomorphy.com> References: <200409251326.13915.petkov@uni-muenster.de> <20040925124441.GM9106@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 872 Lines: 20 On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> 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. > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 03:54:59PM +0300, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > The burning CD audio one is a known issue afaik, i've run into it before > too. That would be the particularly outrageously offensive memory leak, then. -- wli - 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/