linux-kernel - Re: Small System Paging Problem

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Message-ID: <474B50BC.5030108@davidnewall.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:33:24 +1030
From:	David Newall <david@...idnewall.com>
To:	Josh Goldsmith <joshin@...mail.com>
CC:	pavel@....cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

Josh Goldsmith wrote:
> 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.

Into which directory were you extracting the files?
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