søn, 24.10.2004 kl. 09.31 skrev Gregory Woodbury: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:12:27AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 02:39 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > > I have a small memory notebook (old Dell Latitude) with only 64MB of > > > RAM. It is running FC3t3+rawhide (2004-10-23) using XFCE. I mostly use > > > it as an intelligent terminal to other machines across the LAN, however > > > I expect it to be able to do other things (very) slowly when I need it > > > to do so. The system _should_ swap to disk when necessary, but recent > > > kernels have been more inclined to invoke the OOM killer and kill off > > > various services. > > > > > > Yum 2.1.10-3 is very good at trigerring this problem. Trying to create > > > the pickle for the development repository will consistently kill the > > > machine. > > > > The pickle for the development repository would be about 200MB of memory > > to read then write out. > > > > There's no way to do what you want to do in 64M of ram w/o swapping. > > > > -sv > > Of course it can't do it without swapping. > But it *should* swap and run slowly rather than kill off the machine > with the OOM_killer. > Whose problem is it? The kernel for not managing swap right, or yum for > not allowing the use of swap space for making the pickle? How much swap do you have? And btw - why does not the kernel kill the "perpetrator" - in this case yum, but i have also seen gs cause this - gs ate al the mem and the kernel began killing the dock-apps... Starting in the wrong end? Kyrre