Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161424AbWASUyE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:54:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161426AbWASUyE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:54:04 -0500 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:3968 "EHLO dvhart.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161424AbWASUyD (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:54:03 -0500 Message-ID: <43CFFC69.5070401@mbligh.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:54:01 -0800 From: Martin Bligh User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Chittenden Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java). References: <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C2703555F85@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com> In-Reply-To: <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C2703555F85@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 19 Andy Chittenden wrote: > Why does running the following command cause processes to be killed: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/u/u1/andyc/tmpfile bs=1M count=8k > > And I noticed one of my windows disappeared. Further investigation > showed that was my terminator window (java based app: see > http://software.jessies.org/terminator/). I found this in my syslog: > > Jan 17 11:12:58 boco kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java). Ah well. You can't fault us for having good taste ;-) M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/