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

[David Newall]

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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