Hi, 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
I searched thru the suse-linux-e list because i thought i had seen thkis before but i didnt come up with anything.. someone please help, i don't get why it is killing my processes.. i dont even know what VM is
Looks like your system ran into a so-called "out of memory" (OOM) situation. "VM" is the short term for "virtual memory" and is the kernel's memory management. It now kills the offending process to free up more memory. In former times your machine would have been frozen completely. Looks like you should add more memory or swap to this machine. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- 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/