RE: WIerdness when creating Loop-aes file?

["Christian" <evil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, March 9, 2006 20:50, Jan Johansson wrote:
> And THEN I get the below (but mind you, the FS create continues, until

so, you're saying that the OOM killer kicks in during mkfs.ext3? I suppose
apache/mysql were already running. If so, did you monitor the processes as
to how fast the RAM gets consumed?

> "Writing inode tables: Done" and then the terminal freezes. But
> processes starts to dies with OOM ( still have plenty RAM left).

I read it, that if you try to restart the processes again, the OOM killer
hits them again?

I'm no kernel guru, but it really looks like a bug. No mkfs should trigger
an OOM all of a sudden. So I'd go with a current kernel (and current
loop-aes modules)...just to be sure...

Christian.
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