Hi, --- Tetsuo Handa <from-kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > 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?" What OOM Killer does it is to select and kill a process while no memory is available. After killing a process, all memory used by such process are free. What is your kernel version? > > 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. How do you know OOM-killer attempts to free RAM but unable to find any RAM? > Can OOM-killer always return if OOM is caused by "depmod"? OOM Killer keeps killing processes and stop when memory is available for new allocations. BR, Mauricio Lin. > 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/ > > _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! doce lar. Faça do Yahoo! sua homepage. http://br.yahoo.com/homepageset.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
