Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

2007-11-26 Thread Josh Goldsmith
When you untar, which filesystem do you untar too? I've untarred it to Ext3, Ext2, and Reiser filesystems. I've been fighting with this for a while. I did manage to get it to happen again doing a recursive chmod after untarring the kernel (I stopped the untar a few times to let the system

Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

2007-11-26 Thread Josh Goldsmith
PROTECTED]> To: "Josh Goldsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:57 AM Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts Josh Goldsmith wrote: The problem comes when I try to untar a large file (in this case linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2). Re

Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

2007-11-26 Thread Josh Goldsmith
Goldsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:57 AM Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts Josh Goldsmith wrote: The problem comes when I try to untar a large file (in this case linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2). Regardless if I kill off

Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

2007-11-26 Thread Josh Goldsmith
When you untar, which filesystem do you untar too? I've untarred it to Ext3, Ext2, and Reiser filesystems. I've been fighting with this for a while. I did manage to get it to happen again doing a recursive chmod after untarring the kernel (I stopped the untar a few times to let the system

Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

2007-11-25 Thread Josh Goldsmith
Thanks for the response Mikael. Is your 486 running a IDE disk on a normal interface or via USB? I wonder if the NSLU2 only having I/O via USB might be significant. Also, this is a 2.6 kernel and I've seen spurious reports across the internet about similar oom-killer problems since about

Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

2007-11-25 Thread Josh Goldsmith
Hi, I have a Linksys NSLU2 running 2.6.21 (I can replicate the problem on 2.6.23 but it isn't fully supported on SlugOS). It is a armv5teb device with 32MB of RAM, 400+ MB swap on its 160GB USB2 root disk. The machine is used as a fileserver and to build packages for other ARM devices. It

Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

2007-11-25 Thread Josh Goldsmith
Hi, I have a Linksys NSLU2 running 2.6.21 (I can replicate the problem on 2.6.23 but it isn't fully supported on SlugOS). It is a armv5teb device with 32MB of RAM, 400+ MB swap on its 160GB USB2 root disk. The machine is used as a fileserver and to build packages for other ARM devices. It

Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

2007-11-25 Thread Josh Goldsmith
Thanks for the response Mikael. Is your 486 running a IDE disk on a normal interface or via USB? I wonder if the NSLU2 only having I/O via USB might be significant. Also, this is a 2.6 kernel and I've seen spurious reports across the internet about similar oom-killer problems since about