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From: Kristian Peters <kristian.peters@korseby.net>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net
Subject: Re: oom killer in 2.4.23
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:50:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031209195003.6b85247b.kristian.peters@korseby.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031209170653.GO12532@dualathlon.random>

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> schrieb:
> killing getty is a very very lucky scenario indeed. the way I read it
> was that agetty can hardly be a mem eater, and in turn the same way
> agetty was killed, it could have been ssh or X to be killed. That's
> true, but the same issues on the desktop will happen if you have no swap
> if you enable the old oom killer, the vm will go nuts even if you don't
> run oom, and there will be all other sort of troubles mentioned a few
> times already.

I think getty was respawned but the console was screwed somehow. The screen was all black as with broken framebuffer and I couldn't type anything (even not the "blind" way.). Only X was there.

Thanks for all your answers.

*Kristian

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-09 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <Z8Ag-3BK-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <Zbyn-23P-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-12-05 13:05     ` oom killer in 2.4.23 Kristian Peters
2003-12-05 13:56       ` Robert L. Harris
2003-12-05 19:58       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-06  9:31         ` Kristian Peters
2003-12-09 14:21           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-09 14:52             ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-09 17:06               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-09 18:50                 ` Kristian Peters [this message]
2003-12-05 22:38       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-05 22:56         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-04 16:12 Peter Bergmann
2003-12-04 17:02 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-12-04 17:20   ` Guillermo Menguez Alvarez
2003-12-04 23:52     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-04 18:33   ` Peter Bergmann
2003-12-04 18:42     ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-04 20:38       ` Peter Bergmann
2003-12-04 20:28         ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-04 23:58         ` Andrea Arcangeli

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