I have a similar problem. However with 2.2.7 I never seemed to have a problem with virtual memory ( or if I did it was usually the offending process which died as it ran out of memory ). I have 128 MB of RAM and 128 MB of swap. I think that this should be enough. Is it possible to tell the kernel either : not to kill specific processes; or to disable this functionality ? Thanks, CP Lenz Grimmer wrote:
VM stands for virtual memory. Your system was running low on memory and the kernel killed the offending processes to avoid an out of memory situation which could potentially freeze the machine. Here's a comment from Andrea Archangeli (one of our Kernel hackers who wrote this functionality) about this:
<SNIP> Yes, they should add more RAM (or more swap) to their machines.
The kernel it's not too restrictive but it's only enough secure (the official 2.2.13 kernel can also potentially soft-deadlock in the swapin path in such conditions, while the SuSE kernel survive :).
It the task got killed while they had plenty of swap or RAM free that would be true. Please check this. Thanks. </SNIP>
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