Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:57:03
Message-Id: CAGK8UzBrr4MikoEAMXUsh7-sRsex1Jq3xTPty_0v+XJGO8oCTQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles by Carlos Hendson
1 Oom Killer is Not instant, can take a long time or get stuck or kills
2 something vital.
3 ...
4 Am 21.03.2013 07:52 schrieb "Carlos Hendson" <skyclan@×××.net>:
5
6 > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 06:45 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
7 > > You got your answer. 8gig and no swap is NOT ENOUGHT.
8 >
9 > It's a strong indicator, which is going to be corrected.
10 >
11 > I am slightly confused by the resulting behaviour however. I was of the
12 > impression oomkiller would start to kill processes when unallocated
13 > memory is getting scarce?
14 >
15 > How would no free memory cause CPU stalls?
16 >
17 > Regards,
18 > Carlos
19 >
20 >
21 >