| Date | Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:07:35 +0200 | From | Guest section DW <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 01:32:42AM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:26:22PM +0000, James A. Sutherland wrote: > > If SuSE's install program needs more than a quarter Gb of RAM, you need a > > better distro. > > Well, it's rpm ...
Yes. I investigated and found rpm's data base corrupted, and rpm cannot handle that. Since I have several occurrences of rpm being killed by the oom killer in my logs it is entirely possible that the data base got corrupted because rpm was killed while in the process of updating it.
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