From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C1D198005 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5287E07CE; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:50:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA5BE07C4 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.27]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx001) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MVGca-1UCYn50x2M-00Yege for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:50:29 +0100 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2013 06:50:29 -0000 Received: from mail.kiwifrog.net (EHLO [192.168.7.6]) [82.241.90.118] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 21 Mar 2013 07:50:29 +0100 X-Authenticated: #5388774 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/CGXpL2OTCSTX4aHdM1tCMaCNOWTbsnGKnudk/Nw q/8om1JmPE8ivf Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles From: Carlos Hendson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1363754548.1800.1.camel@hydra> <514A14B0.7030002@googlemail.com> <1363816242.2829.47.camel@hydra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:50:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1363848624.1899.6.camel@hydra> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: cbc1ff04-4b09-41b5-9324-c87bc0f18ed7 X-Archives-Hash: 0cfb7d4d1c76f2191de3159104326a20 On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 06:45 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > You got your answer. 8gig and no swap is NOT ENOUGHT. It's a strong indicator, which is going to be corrected. I am slightly confused by the resulting behaviour however. I was of the impression oomkiller would start to kill processes when unallocated memory is getting scarce? How would no free memory cause CPU stalls? Regards, Carlos