gunzip of big file depleated lowmem_reserve causes an OOM panic

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • gunzip of a big file X.tar.gz of size 7+GB slowly takes all low memory from server until server panics (OOM).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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