Re: kernel: VM: terminating process X

[Charles Galpin]

mmh. your explanation make sense, but this box is a simple workstation
with 256MB of real RAM and 256MB of swap. It could conceivable be netscape
- I guess I'll keep an eye on memory usage..

thanks

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:

> Charles Galpin wrote:
> 
> > I have gotten this message a couple of times now. What is "VM" - virtual
> > memory? Why would the kernel be killing X? It has only happened while
> > idle.
> >
> > stock RH7.0, XFree86 3.x / matrox g400
> 
> In my experience it means something is chewing up memory and you ran out of
> swap.  I believe the kernel will start killing processes so that the entire
> machine does not lock.



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