2.1.128 OOM deadlock?

David Whysong (dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu)
Sat, 14 Nov 1998 03:09:06 -0800 (PST)

Linux 2.1.128 fell over while running Miriad, a very large astronomical
data reduction process that was using well over 700 megs of virtual memory
the last time I checked. There were no interesting messages in the log
file. Alt-sysrq-s/u did not appear to work (my partitions were not marked
clean upon reboot) but alt-sysrq-b did reboot the machine. The screen was
blanked and nothing I did would wake it up. Looks like an OOM deadlock to
me, but I though those problems were fixed?

System information: Kernel 2.1.128 UP modular, gcc 2.7.2.3, 256 megs ECC
SDRAM, 626 megs swap space in two partitions and one swap file, Celeron
processor, Tyan Tiger 100 (intel BX chipset) motherboard, 3c905b
networking, 53c810a SCSI, IDE hard disks. Email me if you want more
information.

Dave

David Whysong dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu
Astrophysics graduate student University of California, Santa Barbara
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