Description of problem: When installing F15 on a machine with 512MB RAM oomkiller gets invoked while unpacking initramfs. [ 0.259925] pci 0000:00:01.0: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release [ 0.261044] pci 0000:00:01.0: Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds [ 0.262474] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... [ 3.410442] swapper invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x200d2, order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0 [ 3.412076] swapper cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 [ 3.413052] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.38-0.rc5.git1.1.fc15.i686 #1 [ 3.414406] Call Trace: [ 3.414937] [<c04adce2>] ? dump_header.isra.7+0x7a/0x19a [ 3.415992] [<c04ae1e9>] ? select_bad_process.constprop.12+0x39/0xc4 [ 3.417229] [<c04ae4e5>] ? out_of_memory+0xfc/0x1a7 [ 3.418175] [<c04b130b>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4f5/0x633 [ 3.419290] [<c0455d20>] ? sched_clock_local+0x10/0x18b [ 3.420305] [<c04ab45f>] ? __page_cache_alloc+0x1c/0x1e [ 3.421327] [<c04ac314>] ? grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x47/0x87 [ 3.422519] [<c04fc672>] ? simple_write_begin+0x29/0x70 [ 3.423541] [<c04abe4a>] ? generic_file_buffered_write+0xcc/0x1cd [...] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install F15 alpha with 512MB RAM (I reproduced it on F14 in a VM) 2. 3. Actual results: unable to install F15 with 512MB RAM Expected results: able to install F15 with 512MB RAM Additional info:
wwoods is working on decreasing memory usage. In the meantime, you'll need to make more memory available to your VM.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 682555 ***