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 Per Eriksson WCT #1857 webbie@phanatic.net -- 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/
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/
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
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.
Oh.. thanx everyone for your quick replies.. :) is there some kind of package that would send a mail every time this might happend and then restart the serviecs or should one do a cron job to do it? And i think more memory would be the trick, just got 40mb in the machine.. but 120mb swap :) Per Eriksson WCT #1857 webbie@phanatic.net -- 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/
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, the webster wrote:
Oh.. thanx everyone for your quick replies.. :) is there some kind of package that would send a mail every time this might happend and then restart the serviecs or should one do a cron job to do it?
Your cron daemon might very well be among the tasks that the kernel kills off, so it isn't that simple. To determine which processes to kill when an OOM occurs, is almost a science, and the kernel guys have been discussing this topic a lot recently. Right now you are not guaranteed that the kernel will kill the "offending" process, because the algorithms the kernel use are not smart enough. Possibly this matter will not be completely solved until the 2.6 kernel arrives. ---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/
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/
is this machine online ? kinda looks suspicious to me... ----- Original Message -----
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
Per Eriksson WCT #1857 webbie@phanatic.net
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