From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18pre19 i686) When installing Redhat-7.1 from cdrom onto a Compaq SP1850 server (600PII, 256MB RAM, 2x36GB 10krpm SCSI, ide-cd), the installation crashes during installation of packages (at ~20% installed). The kernel log at the other console says the usual "Out of memory: Killing process 10 anaconda". I chose no special packages - just a pretty small server install. Ob-rant: While I appreciate Rik van Riel's efforts, someone should really verify how the OOM-rambo works. I never had any problems with OOM until the OOM-rambo was introduced. Then I've seen my X sessions getting killed for no apparent reason in both 2.2 and 2.4. Sorta like "I have this neat solution; let's invent a problem for it"... Anyway, I'll check if this is reproducible tomorrow. I'll also check thath the kernel detects all the memory. Side note: just for the kicks (or to verify the server hw and kernel stability) I did foreach i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 cat /dev/sda > /dev/null & cat /dev/sdb > /dev/null & cat /dev/hda > /dev/null & end (hda is the ide-cd), and it killed the kernel in few minutes. Reproducible: Didn't try
More info: the kernel appears to detect all the 256MB of memory, and (at least when booting to rescue mode) there's a healthy 230MB of it free in the beginning. The system is more exactly a Proliant 1850R, 600PIII Xeon 512kB cache, 440BX, if that happens to interest anyone.
I wasn't able to reproduce, but I can't remember exactly what packages I selected the first time.
Is this with GUI or text install?
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