Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:40:37 +0100 | From | Stephen Tweedie <> | Subject | Re: OOM Test Case - Failed! |
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Hi,
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote:
> I am very unimpressed with the current OOM killer. After 10 days of online > time, I decided to try compiling gcc again, the very culprit that killed my > last system using 2.4.0-test8 Friday night (to which I was unable to reset > the system until Monday morning). > > root 1099 63.6 61.5 71424 18740 pts/0 R 09:39 1:22 ./genattrtab
The oom killer avoided killing your busy, large, root-owned process. Don't run gcc compiles as root. Protecting root processes is an explicit design goal here.
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