Re: 2.6.11-rc4 OOM Killer - Kill the Innocent

2005-02-24 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Thursday 24 February 2005 09:23 pm, Parag Warudkar wrote: > After that, the laptop completely froze - The only visibly active thing was > the disk LED - it stayed active till I let it - abt 30 minutes or so. There > was no way I could gain control over the machine. No telnet, no nothing. Additi

2.6.11-rc4 OOM Killer - Kill the Innocent

2005-02-24 Thread Parag Warudkar
I am running 2.6.11-rc-4 on an x86_64 laptop with 768M RAM and 1G swap. Today, I started KDevelop and tried to import linux-2.6.10 sources. It started hogging the memory as expected and reached to a stage where top last updated the kdevelop process's VIRT as 1898M and RES as 634M. 5.8M RAM was f