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Bug 137618 - overzealous oom handler
Summary: overzealous oom handler
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 131251
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL: http://freedesktop.org/~kidcrash/fedo...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-29 19:32 UTC by Carlos Romero
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-10-29 20:10:36 UTC
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Description Carlos Romero 2004-10-29 19:32:06 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20041023 Epiphany/1.4.4

Description of problem:
oom-handler kills dozens of processes at a time.
im used to having kernel oom reap a single pid and be happy with it,
but since 2.6.9-rc series i've been having the reaper tear through
some benign processes including daemons.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.9-1.643

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.gnome desktop running on 128M/256swap
2.rpmbuild eg kernel,glibc in gnome-terminal
3.browse using epiphany until the kernel oom-handler is called


Expected Results:  kill a single memory hog like epiphany and be done
Comment 1 Dave Jones 2004-10-29 20:10:36 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131251 ***
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