From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:32:35 +0100 > 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) Oh, that explains everything. - 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
