Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Sep 2004 05:44:41 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: OOM-killer killed everything |
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On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > I just started burning an audio cd with cdrecord, ran it as root because of > the SUID changes in 2.6.8 when this big bad guy by the name of OOM-killer > appeared and started killing everything :) I don't know whether the spurious > interrupt issue has something to do with it but according to what I've read > on lkml about it until now, it is supposed to be quite harmless. Sysinfo > + .config attached.
Usually I only get "Kernel panic: Out of memory and no killable processes..." from local DoS testcases; I'd be surprised if anyone tripped over such cases by accident unless they're doing something particularly stressful (e.g. forking server with zillions of clients) or there's a particularly outrageously offensive memory leak.
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