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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:56:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGK8UzBrr4MikoEAMXUsh7-sRsex1Jq3xTPty_0v+XJGO8oCTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363848624.1899.6.camel@hydra>

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Oom Killer is Not instant, can take a long time or get stuck or kills
something vital.
...
Am 21.03.2013 07:52 schrieb "Carlos Hendson" <skyclan@gmx.net>:

> 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
>
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-21 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20  4:42 [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles Carlos Hendson
2013-03-20  8:17 ` Mick
2013-03-20 10:10   ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-20 21:49   ` Carlos Hendson
2013-03-20 16:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2013-03-20 16:49   ` Paul Hartman
2013-03-20 16:59   ` Grant Edwards
2013-03-20 21:50   ` Carlos Hendson
2013-03-21 20:03     ` Grant Edwards
2013-03-26 14:13       ` J. Roeleveld
2013-03-26 19:39         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-03-22  8:24     ` Helmut Jarausch
2013-03-20 17:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Daniel Wagener
2013-03-20 21:49   ` Carlos Hendson
2013-03-20 19:57 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-03-20 21:50   ` Carlos Hendson
2013-03-21  5:45     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-03-21  6:50       ` Carlos Hendson
2013-03-21 14:56         ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2013-03-22  7:58   ` [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles [SOLVED] Carlos Hendson
2013-03-20 21:27 ` [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles Paul Hartman
2013-03-20 21:55   ` Carlos Hendson

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