[gentoo-user] Re: mysqld invoked oom-killer
On 07/25/2011 08:54 PM, Grant wrote: BTW, can anyone tell me why I'm using icedtea6-bin instead of icedtea? When I first installed icedtea-bin there was no icedtea package, so I tried to compile it myself using online instructions and gave up in frustration. I'm glad you asked, because now I'll try the icedtea package instead. I just noticed the icedtea-web package, which supplies an nsbrowser java plugin. I don't know if the 'plugin' errors you were seeing are related to the browser java plugin or some other plugin library, but I'm going to install both packages tomorrow and give them a try. I assume you need to eselect the java-nsplugin as well as the java-vm if you install icedtea-web. I'll try it.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysqld invoked oom-killer
walt wrote: On 07/25/2011 08:54 PM, Grant wrote: BTW, can anyone tell me why I'm using icedtea6-bin instead of icedtea? When I first installed icedtea-bin there was no icedtea package, so I tried to compile it myself using online instructions and gave up in frustration. I'm glad you asked, because now I'll try the icedtea package instead. I just noticed the icedtea-web package, which supplies an nsbrowser java plugin. I don't know if the 'plugin' errors you were seeing are related to the browser java plugin or some other plugin library, but I'm going to install both packages tomorrow and give them a try. I assume you need to eselect the java-nsplugin as well as the java-vm if you install icedtea-web. I'll try it. Now I got to ask a question. Does this replace the other flash player thingy that has so many security holes? If so, can you post how well it works? Does it work well, so so, not well at all? If it works OK, I might like to try it. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysqld invoked oom-killer
Now I got to ask a question. Does this replace the other flash player thingy that has so many security holes? No, java != flash, different plugin. Try about:plugins in the URL box so see what you have.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysqld invoked oom-killer
Adam Carter wrote: Now I got to ask a question. Does this replace the other flash player thingy that has so many security holes? No, java != flash, different plugin. Try about:plugins in the URL box so see what you have. OK. I just thought there may be a open source option that is better or at least has less security problems. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysqld invoked oom-killer
OK. I just thought there may be a open source option that is better or at least has less security problems. There are some, lightspark and gnash are in portage. I've never tried any of them...
[gentoo-user] Re: mysqld invoked oom-killer
On 07/22/2011 11:13 AM, Grant wrote: Wouldn't a sufficiently large swap (100GB for example) completely prevent out of memory conditions and the oom-killer? There's always someone who can pull a corner case out of his hat :) I can't remember the details now, but there was a piece of code in the virtualbox svn repository that triggered a bug in gcc. The code in question caused gcc to loop forever while parsing, using more RAM with every iteration. I watched my 4 gigs of RAM slowly fill up, and then watched nervously as my 4 gigs of swap began to fill up as well. After the swapping started, the machine was almost unusably slow. I typed Ctrl-Z and waited about five minutes until the gcc process finally suspended so I could kill the compile.
