Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Aug 2000 19:57:22 +0000 | From | Alexander Valys <> | Subject | Out of memory? |
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I just experienced a strange situation on my slackware 7.1, kernel 2.2.16 box. I was compiling windowmaker on VT1, and experimenting with a prime number generation tool on VT2. I tried to open a 26mb file with pico, but because it was so large pico took a while to open it, displaying reading file on the bottom of the screen. I switched back to VT1, and noticed that the build had slowed to a crawl. Puzzled, I sat back and waited. After about 30 seconds, make crashed with an out of memory error. I typed at the command line "clear" to clear the screen, but it complained about not being able to map memory pages to open libc6. I switch back to VT2, and found the pico was still "reading file". On vt1, every command, including shutdown, didn't start because of not being able to open a shared library. killall pico (in the hopes that killing it would free up the memory it stole) crashed with a segfault. I tried to login on VT3, but after typing root and the password and enter, I got the following message "init: Id "c3" respawning too fast; disabled for 5 minutes" Eventually, the same thing happened on my other VTs. Finally, after a few minutes, pico finally crashed, or exited, or whatever, and I was able to restart normally. I haven't tried to reproduce the error, but I could if so desired. The only messages in the system log are the above message for c3, c1 and c4 one time each.
Isn't the kernel supposed to prevent this sort of this from happening?
--A. Valys
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