Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: System hang problem. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:49:14 +0100 |
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Ar Maw, 2006-10-03 am 17:07 -0700, ysgrifennodd Manish Neema: > Thanks Keith for the response. > > My explanation earlier is not clear. The "automount" process dying with > restrictive overcommit settings is not because of the OOM kill. It looks > like some bug with "automount" binary itself causing it to exit when it > could not service a new request. > > "cd /remote/something" when the system is out of (allocate'able) memory > causes the below events (obtained from /var/log/messages) > > Oct 3 13:35:32 gentoo036 automount[2060]: handle_packet_missing: fork: > Cannot allocate memory > Oct 3 13:35:34 gentoo036 automount[2060]: can't unmount /remote
Your kernel is behaving correctly if it does this in mode 2. You need more memory or to better set resource limits on what is running.
Alan
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