Have you checked to make sure you have your swap mounted ok?
I had a similar problem last week after doing a install with a unfamiliar
distribution. I had allocated 512M but for some reason mkswap was not run.
So when i tried to use a memory hungry app OOM killed it as it should.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 07:00, Dietmar Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running 2.4.14 on top of a SuSE Linux 7.3 distribution. I took the
> complete sources myself from kernel.org corr. to an older Latest-Is
> Announce.
>
> Installing, configuring, compiling and all went fine with 2.4.14 so far...
> (in fact it works fine for me although SuSE-Kernels in some way differ from
> orginal sources...)
>
> My /proc/version (although I don't think it important for the further
> problem
>
> description...) gives:
> > Linux version 2.4.14 (root@sirius) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE))
>
> Today I downloaded patch-2.4.15 and applied it. As I suggest it went okay
> as no Hmm..'s came up.
>
> When trying to configure the 2.4.15 kernel (using "make menuconfig") from
> an konsole within kde the latter crashed.
>
> Checking for the cause /var/log/messages gave:
> > Nov 24 19:06:31 sirius kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2595
> > (kdeinit). Nov 24 19:06:37 sirius kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process
> > 2593 (kdeinit). Nov 24 19:06:39 sirius kernel: Out of Memory: Killed
> > process 2604 (kdeinit).
>
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