Marco Calviani | 1 Jul 2005 08:44
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Re: System exiting due to kernel....

Thanks.
   i'll try move to a newer kernel to solve this issue.

Regards,
MC

Almut Behrens wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:55:23PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote:
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>>  ..., but what is an OOM Killer?
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>OOM = out of memory.
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>The OOM killer is responsible for killing processes when the system is
>running out of virtual memory (so the system itself will "stay alive").
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>(In your case it hit the X server -- which might be considered
>suboptimal, with respect to keeping damage to the end user to a
>minimum... ;)
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>Cheers,
>Almut
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Gmane