VM: killing process

From: Simon Garner (sgarner@expio.co.nz)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 23:46:29 EST


Hi,

Can someone tell me what the following means: (from syslog)

Feb 16 16:53:40 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process httpd
Feb 16 16:53:50 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process pop3d
Feb 16 16:54:01 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process httpd
Feb 16 16:54:06 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process crond
Feb 16 16:54:12 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process httpd
Feb 16 16:54:22 hyperion last message repeated 2 times
Feb 16 16:54:23 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process pop3d
Feb 16 16:54:38 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process httpd
Feb 16 16:54:38 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process httpd
Feb 16 16:54:42 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process xinetd
Feb 16 16:54:48 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process httpd
Feb 16 16:54:54 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process httpd
Feb 16 16:55:07 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process nmbd
Feb 16 16:55:07 hyperion kernel: VM: killing process httpd

Does VM stand for Virtual Memory? Am I out of RAM/swap?

The machine is running Red Hat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.14), and has 128MB (ECC
PC-100) RAM, and a 128MB swap partition. Normally I have anywhere from 3 to
20MB RAM free, and about 2MB of swap used (126MB free).

This has happened three times now. I reset the box and all seems to go fine.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers

Simon Garner

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