Re: pre9-4 OOM VM lockups

From: Juan J. Quintela (quintela@fi.udc.es)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 11:43:10 EST


>>>>> "tim" == t n vanderleeuw <t.n.vanderleeuw@chello.nl> writes:

tim> Hi,
tim> with pre9-3 and pre9-4 I'm experiencing lockups when OOM.
tim> A random process will be killed (NOT the runaway process) and the
tim> computer hangs solid after that (still pingable, but nothing else
tim> works, not even VT switching or capslock toggle).

tim> I don't know if this goes wrong under pre9-2 or other versions as well,
tim> because it happened to me this morning only running pre9-3, and I can
tim> now repeat it on pre9-4.

tim> (I thought that with the latest patches of Juan Quintela this shouldn't
tim> happen anymore, and I thought that his patch against pre9-3 has gone
tim> into pre9-4. But either of those assumptions can be wrong. Should I
tim> test with pre9-3 and Juan's patch for pre9-3?)

tim> The machine is a P5mmx UP with 64MB; the process causing the OOM is a
tim> runaway dpkg/debconf perlscript with infinite recursion.

If that is reproducible, could you give me a program/command line that
shows the OOM. I also thougth that the OOM problems was gone.

Later, Juan.

PD. I also use debian, no problem if the script has dpkg/debconf
commands.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

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