Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

[Josh Goldsmith]

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" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Josh Goldsmith" <joshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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?

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