VM: killing process X

[Konstantinos Peletidis]

Geia sas,

Prin merikes meres, se ena pc me 256MB RAM kai Slackware 9.1 me kernel
2.4.26, emfanisthke to parakatw provlhma:

Me to pou anoiksa prwi-prwi to monitor(to pc eixe uptime 34 meres),
anti gia to desktop mou, antikrisa mia mavrh o8onh. Den yphrxe
apokrish apo to plhktrologio, oute to Alt+Ctrl+Del eixe apotelesma. Meta
apo ena reset vrhka ta parakatw sto /var/log/kernel:

<LOG>

May 21 04:41:05 wintermute kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
May 21 04:41:05 wintermute kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation
failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
May 21 04:41:05 wintermute kernel: VM: killing process X

</LOG>

Aksizei na shmeiw8ei oti stis 04:40 o crond ektelei kapoia maintainance
scripts, ena ek twn opoiwn kanei update thn slocate database.

Psaxnontas sto google ema8a pws o kernel, apo tote pou afaire8hke o OOM
killer, an ksemeinei apo virtual memory skotwnei psilorandomly processes
mexri na hremhsoun ta pragmata.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1010

Exete paromoies empeiries me kapoion prosfato 2.4.x kernel? Poso
syxna vlepete paromoia symperifora? Stous 2.6.x kernels yparxei tropos
na skotwnetai h pragmatika enoxh process *kai mono auth* (sthn parapanw
periptwsh, h updatedb(1)) anti na paizei o kernel rwssikh rouleta?


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