Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[risselada-a@xxxxxxxxx (Alex Risselada)]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, you sat in front of your keyboard, and wrote:
> > Why can happen this error??
> > 
> > Aug 30 12:13:32 parato kernel: VM: killing process nscd
> > Aug 30 12:13:32 parato kernel: VM: killing process gnu-pop3d
> > Aug 30 12:13:32 parato kernel: VM: killing process bash
> > 
> > I don't know what is causing it and why the kernel decide to kill these
> > processes.
> 
> You're running out of memory, including swap space. When the
> kernel gets desperate, it will choose random processes to
> kill off in order to free up some memory. It's less than
> ideal, but the alternative is to let the machine grind to a
> complete stop.

Whare has this to be configured? If I run out of swap space, the machine is
going to run like glue. The HD constantly spins, and it is hard to kill the
resource eating PID, but as I HAVE to do it on my own, otherwise, it WILL make
a sort of crash.

Greedz Alex


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