Re: [Sheflug] Re: 2.4.4

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:

> It's not a crash as in 'halts the machine', it's the OOM killer running
> rampant. It's a known bug. Given I'm running on a desktop, killing X is
> basically a crash of the machine, because every single process I'm running
> gets killed or commits suicide.

Not seen it myself, but I've heard a fair bit about it. Although it isn't
the same as a crash of the machine, you have time to sync the disks, and
some programs e.g. pine will save some state for you automatically.

> I'll update my kernel at some point, probably 2.4.5 I think. I know there is
> supposedly a fix for it, so hopefully that'll do the trick.

Allegedly yeah. There should also be a patch/revertion of the fork
behaviour that is really starting to get to me in 2.4.4...


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