for the record: the "oom bug" turned out to be user generated. a *lot* of small scripts were started, triggering oom again and again, user error.
the source of the problem is still pppd and the discussion continues as a debian bugreport: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=299875 thank you for all your help, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #139: UBNC (user brain not connected) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/