Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:33:24 +1030 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts |
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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.
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