12 Feb
2012
12 Feb
'12
3:52 a.m.
On Sunday 12 February 2012 13:33:34 Andrew Worsley wrote:
Linux imac 2.6.32-5-powerpc
That's a very old kernel (December 2009), have you replicated it on a current kernel to see if it's been addressed in the 2 years since? It sounds a little like you might have run into an issue with the OOM killer, you may want to run your system without overcommit enabled, I have in /etc/sysctl.conf on most systems I run: # Stop OOM'ing vm.overcommit_memory = 2 vm.overcommit_ratio = 99 cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP