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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:59:51 +0100
From: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
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Subject: Re: oom with 2.6.11
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Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> I do "grep check-route.sh oom_2.6.11.3.txt | wc" and it shows 4365

duh, good catch! really!

> lines, which means there're 4365 that script processes running, from 
> pid 4260 to12747, mostly with pretty low points, 123.
> Based on this points, suppose each script consumes 100k, that'll be
> 100k*4k=400M roughly. And your box's is merely 256M MemTotal.

yes, i just checked, the script is looping and crond is starting a new
one, and another....and the oom-killer does not catch it, because it's too
small and of course don't know where it is coming from (crond).

> Check this script and disable it; see what will happen.

yes, will do that. on a (not so unimportant) side-note: i was told the
whole thing should be fixed with 2.6.11.4:

  [PATCH] CAN-2005-0384: Remote Linux DoS on ppp servers


after all it seems to be PEBKAC and bad luck...what a week.

thank you for your help,
Christian.
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