Debian bug report logs - #1759 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1759: running out of swap causes deadlock Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 22:03:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: source X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 22:03:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 21:48:48 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t7rB5-000523C; Tue, 24 Oct 95 14:46 PDT Received: from artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA29503 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:45:50 -0700 Received: from chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk by artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #33) id m0t7rAh-0007ueC; Tue, 24 Oct 95 21:46 GMT Received: by chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk id m0t7rAN-0002aaC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Tue, 24 Oct 95 21:45 GMT Message-Id: Date: Tue, 24 Oct 95 21:45 GMT From: Ian Jackson To: Debian bugs submission address Package: source Version: 1.2.13 To reproduce: do lots of things that need lots of swap, when you haven't got enough. Effect: system locks up totally, with only an insignificant amount of disk activity. Thrashing badly I could understand (but wouldn't like). Randomly killing processes I could understand, and might at least allow *some* of the system to come down cleanly. As it is, you have to hit the reset switch. This is a known problem with Linux in general. I just thought I'd report it here as we're supposed to be able to have the package maintainer chase up the upstream maintainer - linux-kernel in this case. Usually discussions of this on linux-kernel produce heat but no light. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1759: Acknowledgement (was: running out of swap causes deadlock) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1759" or "Re: Bug#1759" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov