Bug 137618

Summary: overzealous oom handler
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Carlos Romero <kidcrash>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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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 ***