Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756843AbXKZXDg (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:03:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753836AbXKZXD2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:03:28 -0500 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:35358 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753341AbXKZXD2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:03:28 -0500 Message-ID: <474B50BC.5030108@davidnewall.com> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:33:24 +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: pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts References: <474AB4A3.8050802@davidnewall.com> 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: 773 Lines: 15 Josh Goldsmith wrote: > 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. Into which directory were you extracting the files? - 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/