Debian bug report logs - #1759 running out of swap causes deadlock Package: source ; Reported by: Ian Jackson ; 7 days old. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk!ian Tue Oct 24 14:46:35 1995 Return-Path: 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 Subject: running out of swap causes deadlock 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Ian Jackson : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1759 ; Package source . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov