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 B364B198005 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9257AE07FD; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f52.google.com (mail-wg0-f52.google.com [74.125.82.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A785E079E for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f52.google.com with SMTP id 15so2271289wgd.31 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:56:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Lo+fJVenqUq36nzmz9gk2ipJ1RGq/xcBkBqKAHhCcr4=; b=fq9aAeh+kD0DQN+5zCABSIoZYD079Sr5RAuc8hLbY6asOROOOILF1zxjTHHsTOArwE L1hg5cvjExli2NFrTJTOK3g16K/ep3dDqGPn/7xYjGeJ7G8K/vMiF3SI4V9RkbdSVMrP 48+UbzxtiiB9sdeZ+maqHaOxccfT6p+HTmRewopydIYhmASOw+HI1JhT3V/wfvmNKQMV ZbvzdhFvnYg9DR/h2MuVr+KXCWYEHRtJEQ5yVIxh/cPvicKpF/NXRI4jU4GOBRiCPSpg 9/wprE+asCZxi18rVwwkcEJaCE3Omod7ur4XXwnd+ZzzMiut/nYK3Mpnzl7/epWFJS9D PLbw== 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-Received: by 10.194.120.195 with SMTP id le3mr3494744wjb.46.1363877804665; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.107.66 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.107.66 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:56:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1363848624.1899.6.camel@hydra> References: <1363754548.1800.1.camel@hydra> <514A14B0.7030002@googlemail.com> <1363816242.2829.47.camel@hydra> <1363848624.1899.6.camel@hydra> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:56:44 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e01177a0d10746104d8708cdb X-Archives-Salt: b98306c5-a339-40cf-8163-238e8e6e98f5 X-Archives-Hash: 2bd4c0f87b9e35f42c688d3bfface0f1 --089e01177a0d10746104d8708cdb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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" : > 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 > > > --089e01177a0d10746104d8708cdb Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Oom Killer is Not instant, can take a long time or get stuck or kills so= mething 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. =A0I was of the<= br> 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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