Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754940AbXKZL5g (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:57:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754178AbXKZL52 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:57:28 -0500 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:35292 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754182AbXKZL51 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:57:27 -0500 Message-ID: <474AB4A3.8050802@davidnewall.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:27:23 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Goldsmith CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 534 Lines: 12 Josh Goldsmith wrote: > The problem comes when I try to untar a large file (in this case > linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2). Regardless if I kill off every other process, > eventually the oom-killer will appear and kill either the tar or the > shell. What's the actual command you are executing? - 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/