Re: OOM-killer killed everything

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> 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.

The burning CD audio one is a known issue afaik, i've run into it before 
too.

	Zwane

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