David: The exact command this time was a "tar jxf linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2" as
part of an emerge (gentoo). Gnu tar version 1.18 but has happened with
prior versions too. I replicated it after my post by manually untarring it
on the command line and can almost always replicate the problem with any
large (GCC/kernel) tarball. If I shut down all other processes, the untar
will go longer but eventually the oom-killer will be invoked.
Pavel: I'll ping Olver Neukum about it.
Thanks for the responses!
-Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Newall" <[email protected]>
To: "Josh Goldsmith" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts
Josh Goldsmith wrote:
The problem comes when I try to untar a large file (in this case
linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2). Regardless if I kill off every other process,
eventually the oom-killer will appear and kill either the tar or the
shell.
What's the actual command you are executing?
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