On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 17:46, Dave Seff wrote: > I had a user's machine (Mdk 8.2) suddenly freeze up. The cpu was at 100% > (kernel, not user), and he was kicked back out to the logic screen. > > I then found this in /var/adm/messages. > > Nov 19 16:15:39 advisen13 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation > failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > Nov 19 16:15:39 advisen13 kernel: VM: killing process X > >
2.4 kernels will kill runaway processes -- something caused X to run away, and the alloc failure tells me it was probably memory. Have the user run gkrellm or top and it will be a little clearer what happened, but I don't know a good way to remotely figure it out. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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