Why was oom-killer invoked?

Hi, Please help me understand why oom-killer was invoked? >From the SAR logs we can see that there is lots of memory in use by the system cache, but free is low. How can we ensure there is more memory available in free to avoid triggering oom-killer? >From Kernel Log: Mar 16 23:30:06 kernel: [4

placement of partitions on hard drive

hi all, i have a new 80Gb hard drive that i am going to do a fresh install on with seperate partitions for the following: / 250mb /swap 128mb /usr2500mb /var500mb /tmp100mb /home 5000mb and another two dedicated to files called /mp3loads of mb /moo_v loads of mb any s

return of "ebda too big" error message

Hi Group, A while ago I compiled a new kernel and when booting it for the first time got the error message EBDA too big. This I resolved according to bug report 106898 by editing /usr/share/misc/magic.Now this error message has returned and the magic file is correct as far as the bug fix is concern

Problem with modem

Hi all I have recently moved from Redhat to debian and am having problems with an Actiontec PCI Master controller-based modem. After installing Potato and compiling 2.4 kernel (due to better PCI support) I am getting the following boot message ttyS04 at port 0x1800 (irq = 11) is a 16550A The m