On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, the webster wrote:
Hello.. I just caught my machine doing something rather odd that never happend to me before.. I get home and find the harddrive going crazy and when i finally can log in i see that the load has been on 17 for 15 minutes.. i check syslog and i find this,
Mar 28 16:47:41 anubis kernel: VM: killing process named Mar 28 16:52:10 anubis kernel: VM: killing process nmbd Mar 28 16:52:41 anubis kernel: VM: killing process ssh2
'VM' is the virtual memory subsystem. When your computer runs out of virtual memory (i.e. physical memory _and_ swap space) the kernel starts killing processes to free enough memory so that the system can continue to do some real work. :-) ---J.T.U. /==================================================================\ | Jon Trygve Utne |e-mail: jont@ii.uib.no | | Department of Informatics | Jon.Utne@mi.uib.no | | University of Bergen, Norway | Jon.Utne@student.uib.no | | Tlf(work) +47 55 58 82 95 |"Smith & Wesson: The original| | URL: http://www.ii.uib.no/~jont | point and click interface" | \==================================================================/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/