Yep, you've run out of virtual memory (VM). You might want to run "top" and
see how much swap and real memory you have, and determine if you have got a
runaway memory hog. The processes that have been killed are just the ones at
the time that were after more memory, and may not be the culprits.
Here's the code from ./arch/alpha/mm/fault.c (I'm sure it similar for
Intel)
/*
* We ran out of memory, or some other thing happened to us that made
* us unable to handle the page fault gracefully.
*/
out_of_memory:
if (current->pid == 1)
{
current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
schedule();
goto survive;
}
up(&mm->mmap_sem);
if (user_mode(regs))
{
printk("VM: killing process %s\n", current->comm);
do_exit(SIGKILL);
}
goto no_context;
Martin Visser
Network Consultant - Compaq Global Services
Compaq Computer Australia
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Rhodes, Sydney NSW 2138
Australia
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-----Original Message-----
From: chesty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 4 June 2001 9:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] (no subject)
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:50:13PM +1000, Brian Hunt wrote:
> Does anyone know what VM stands for and does it relate to the VM in
vmlinux?
VM stands for virtual memory, I could only guess what the vm in vmlinux
means.
> VM: killing process .syslogd
It could be you have run out of memory. Once you run out of memory,
linux starts killing processes.
Boot to single user mode and check your swap is working and
that linux sees all of your memory. (use the 'free' command)
Turn off any services you don't need.
--
chesty
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