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SubjectRe: Bug?
In <19991214154634.B3097@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu> Bill Wendling (wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu) wrote:
> Dunno if this is a bug or if it's supposed to happen like this, but an
> ordinary user was able to crash inetd on my computer by doing a "make -j"
> on a very big job.

You mean OOM (Out Of Memory) or something other ? Current version of Linux
(2.2.x) does not handle OOM situations gracefully :-/ It's known problem.

> Is this normal or should I supply more information?

If you mean just OOM then it's normal :-/ There are no trivial fix and so
it's not known when (and if) it'll be fixed.





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