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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