2.2.[7-9] crashes

Joseph Malicki (malicki.1@osu.edu)
Sat, 15 May 1999 03:28:29 -0400

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I don't know if this should be a bug or not, but when I run kmail and try to
compact my linux-kernel folder (about 98MB), it begins to use all available
memory and swap (128MB+128MB), and the machine appears to crash. The kernel
still responds to pings, and I can connect to the telnet port, but no prompt
ever comes up, and I can't even move the mouse in X.

Nothing ever appears in the logs, and I have to hard reset. It is completely
reproducible. Is this a kernel bug, or should I just set reasonable ulimits?

Joseph Malicki

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