Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755055AbXKZRs7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:48:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752892AbXKZRsw (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:48:52 -0500 Received: from bay0-omc2-s19.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.246.155]:15208 "EHLO bay0-omc2-s19.bay0.hotmail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752308AbXKZRsv (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:48:51 -0500 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [130.13.252.143] X-Originating-Email: [joshin@hotmail.com] From: "Josh Goldsmith" To: "David Newall" , Cc: References: <474AB4A3.8050802@davidnewall.com> Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:48:34 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Nov 2007 17:48:50.0400 (UTC) FILETIME=[9A4A3600:01C83054] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1322 Lines: 34 David: The exact command this time was a "tar jxf linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2" as part of an emerge (gentoo). Gnu tar version 1.18 but has happened with prior versions too. I replicated it after my post by manually untarring it on the command line and can almost always replicate the problem with any large (GCC/kernel) tarball. If I shut down all other processes, the untar will go longer but eventually the oom-killer will be invoked. Pavel: I'll ping Olver Neukum about it. Thanks for the responses! -Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Newall" To: "Josh Goldsmith" Cc: Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:57 AM Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts > 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/