Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:42:14 -0600 (CST) | From | Adam Heath <> | Subject | when out of memory, random programs die |
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System stats: k6-2-332.5, 128m ram, 256 swap, 2.1.105.
I did a 'time make -j zImage modules' on 2.1.131ac4 to test my system out today, and relatively early random gcc's, cpp's, and make's started dying. No other program anywhere was killed, only the ones involved in this compile run. What was odd, was that the top level make was killed, so the other makes kept running in the background. a killall make helped that on another console, but shouldn't the kernel kill child processes first, before parents in low-mem situations? or at least make it a sysctl option.
Adam
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