On 13 Sep 2002, Timothy D. Witham wrote:
> In this case the offense is asking for more memory. So it is the
> process that asks for more memory that goes away. Again sometimes it
> will be an innocent bystander but hopefully it will eventually be the
> process that is causing the problem.
If you kill the process that requests memory, the sequence often
goes as follows:
1) memory is exhausted
2) the network driver can't allocate memory and
spits out a message
3) syslogd and/or klogd get killed
Clearly you want to be a bit smarter about which process to kill.
regards,
Rik
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