Hello I went to my wife's computer (stock SuSE 9.0, 2.4.21-99 Athlon kernel) and it was locked up. I had to hard boot it since it did not respond to ssh or telnet. I checked the log file and the only suspicious items were these messages -> May 31 23:05:49 aria kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) May 31 23:05:58 aria kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May 31 23:05:58 aria kernel: VM: killing process sh The previous message was six minutes before regarding the hourly cron job May 31 22:59:06 aria /USR/SBIN/CRON[19537]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) The only thing the computer was doing at the time was either running a screen saver (KDE - random) or having the screen totally blank (probably the latter). I looked for this error message on the archives and it appears to be that the system could not allocate more memory. Is it possible that a screen saver is toxic? Or can this be indicative of a RAM failure? The machine had only been on for one day. Any hints are thoroughly appreciated TIA&cheers