Hi Andrew, OOM killer prints a stray newline: 2005-05-17_10:24:16.76726 kern.info: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d2 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81850 kern.info: DMA per-cpu: 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81862 kern.info: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81868 kern.info: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81875 kern.info: Normal per-cpu: 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81881 kern.info: cpu 0 hot: low 28, high 84, batch 14 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81888 kern.info: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 28, batch 14 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81895 kern.info: HighMem per-cpu: empty 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81901 kern.info: 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81907 kern.info: Free pages: 3064kB (0kB HighMem) 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81914 kern.info: Active:56193 inactive:864 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:766 slab:3928 mapped:55276 pagetables:75 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81922 kern.info: DMA free:1080kB min:124kB low:152kB high:184kB active:9464kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanne 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81932 kern.info: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 239 239 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81938 kern.info: Normal free:1984kB min:1916kB low:2392kB high:2872kB active:215308kB inactive:3456kB present:245696kB 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81948 kern.info: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81954 kern.info: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 al 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81965 kern.info: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81974 kern.info: DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1080kB 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81983 kern.info: Normal: 26*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB 4*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1984kB 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81991 kern.info: HighMem: empty 2005-05-17_10:24:16.81997 kern.info: Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0 2005-05-17_10:24:16.82004 kern.info: Free swap = 0kB 2005-05-17_10:24:16.82011 kern.info: Total swap = 0kB Patch is below. -- vda