On 23 May, Juan J. Quintela wrote:
>>>>>> "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> 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.
>
It was actually the debconf script for debconf itself when upgrading to
debconf 0.3.36 using the web-interface. It got into some infinite
recursion loop somewhere.
So perhaps if you upgrade to Debian Woody the same will happen to you
-- unless they released a debconf 0.3.37 .deb already to fix this :-)
I'll see if I can write a OOM killer program tonight but my wife might
be unhappy about frequent reboots <g>
--Tim
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