Re: homicidal kernel

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:16:32PM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
> I keep getting messages in my syslog like:
> 	Feb 11 14:02:50 cloud233 kernel: VM: killing process start

That's the OOM (Out Of Memory) killer.

> The kernel is
> 	sauer@cloud233:~ > uname -a
> 	Linux cloud233 2.2.14 #2 Mon May 22 20:48:29 CDT 2000 i686 unknown
> so I suppose that should be updated, but it just started odoing this
> recently.

I'd bet VM bugs in that kernel.  Something made it unhappy.  You
really should upgrade it to the latest 2.2.x (to fix security
problems, if nothing else).

Steve
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