Hello. For two weeks, I have been unable to complete "make modules_install" in Fedora Core 5 test 3. Today I tried again in Fedora Core 5, the result was the same. This is because "depmod" invoked by "make modules_install" consumes all RAM, resulting OOM-killer killing "depmod" itself. This would be a bug of "depmod", but the reason I post to this ML is that I want to know "What will happen to OOM-killer if no RAM is freeable?" I once encountered a case that OOM-killer attempts to free RAM but unable to find any RAM, resulting infinite loop showing noisy messages rather than killing "depmod" itself. Can OOM-killer always return if OOM is caused by "depmod"? I couldn't trace what system call was executing at that time, but I think the kernel was processing something that are related to kernel module functions such as init_module() because the process that caused OOM is "depmod". Regards. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
