Re: VM running wild, taking isdn with it
Karsten Keil (kkeil@suse.de)
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:11:31 +0100
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 01:04:27PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i had the VM running wild and my isdn becoming unusable.
>
> The following happend :
> I started under X the kde newsreader. The system became unusable and disk
> activity started with long pauses in between. After approximately 1 minute the
> X session was terminated and the system became perfectly usable with one
> execption. It was impossible to establish an isdn connection.
>
> I am sending this to the kernel mailing list, because I am not sure that isdn
> is to blame. Isdn was not active and my newsserver is localhost(leafnode).
> I am quite sure that I was not out of memory.
This seem you was out of memory:
> Dec 5 12:28:45 chani kernel: VM: killing process kwm
> Dec 5 12:29:00 chani kernel: VM: killing process kdm
> Dec 5 12:29:26 chani kernel: VM: killing process netscape
> Dec 5 12:29:45 chani kernel: VM: killing process kpanel
I think ISDN is not OOM proof in the moment, I got an other report too.
I'll look for this next time.
Karsten Keil
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