On Thu, March 9, 2006 20:50, Jan Johansson wrote: > And THEN I get the below (but mind you, the FS create continues, until so, you're saying that the OOM killer kicks in during mkfs.ext3? I suppose apache/mysql were already running. If so, did you monitor the processes as to how fast the RAM gets consumed? > "Writing inode tables: Done" and then the terminal freezes. But > processes starts to dies with OOM ( still have plenty RAM left). I read it, that if you try to restart the processes again, the OOM killer hits them again? I'm no kernel guru, but it really looks like a bug. No mkfs should trigger an OOM all of a sudden. So I'd go with a current kernel (and current loop-aes modules)...just to be sure... Christian. -- make bzImage, not war - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
