linux-kernel - RE: System hang problem.

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Date:	Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:49:14 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Manish Neema <Manish.Neema@...opsys.com>
Cc:	Keith Mannthey <kmannth@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: System hang problem.

Ar Maw, 2006-10-03 am 17:07 -0700, ysgrifennodd Manish Neema:
> Thanks Keith for the response.
> 
> My explanation earlier is not clear. The "automount" process dying with
> restrictive overcommit settings is not because of the OOM kill. It looks
> like some bug with "automount" binary itself causing it to exit when it
> could not service a new request.
> 
> "cd /remote/something" when the system is out of (allocate'able) memory
> causes the below events (obtained from /var/log/messages)
> 
> Oct  3 13:35:32 gentoo036 automount[2060]: handle_packet_missing: fork:
> Cannot allocate memory
> Oct  3 13:35:34 gentoo036 automount[2060]: can't unmount /remote

Your kernel is behaving correctly if it does this in mode 2. You need
more memory or to better set resource limits on what is running. 

Alan

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