Re: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java).

[Martin Bligh]

Andy Chittenden wrote:
> Why does running the following command cause processes to be killed:
>
> 	dd if=/dev/zero of=/u/u1/andyc/tmpfile bs=1M count=8k
>
> And I noticed one of my windows disappeared. Further investigation
> showed that was my terminator window (java based app: see
> http://software.jessies.org/terminator/). I found this in my syslog:
>
> Jan 17 11:12:58 boco kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java).

Ah well. You can't fault us for having good taste ;-)

M.
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