I've got VMWare killed a couple of times mysteriously.
I've got 256MB memory and no swap on my laptop running 2.4.16 and for
some reason VMWare has got killed with the following syslog
information:
Dec 17 23:33:23 puck kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 28803 (vmware).
Dec 17 23:33:35 puck kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 28804 (vmware).
Dec 17 23:33:37 puck kernel: /dev/vmmon: Vmx86_ReleaseVM: unlocked pages: 75286, unlocked dirty pages: 51084
What I find odd is, that I am quite certain this machine did _not_ run
out of memory when this happened. Just a few minutes ago I had an idle
VMWare session and started an XEmacs to edit a large file. Just being
curious, I happened to say 'free' a few seconds before VMWare got
killed:
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256224 219748 36476 0 12956 48816
-/+ buffers/cache: 157976 98248
Swap: 0 0 0
Boom, it died about the same time I exit from XEmacs. After that, I
ran 'free' again:
n$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256224 203644 52580 0 13148 81620
-/+ buffers/cache: 108876 147348
Swap: 0 0 0
I may be missing something obvious herfe, but I just can't figure out
why kernel killes VMWare in this situation.
If anyone's interested, I think I can reproduce this and - if someone
will kindly instruct me a bit - produce some more information. I
_think_ this is the place where experienced kernel hackers start
speaking about running 'vmstat'. And where I usually start having
problems undertanding what it is that people are talking about...
Suonpää...
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