Andrew Walrond wrote: > This is a 2Gb machine with 2Gb of swap running a distro (<1Gb) out of > initramfs. It has plenty of free ram at the start of the build (~1Gb) > so it really shouldn't be invoking the oom-killer I suspect. > > Any clues as to what is going on? I can supply my .config if that will help. > Please disregard. I have just realised that initramfs uses ramfs, not tmpfs as I assumed, so is not swappable and the oom-killer is quite possible in these circumstances given the size of the build job. (There was a patch by Al Boldi around 2.6.18 to use tmpfs but it seems it didn't go into the kernel) Ho hum > Andrew Walrond > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
