From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161276AbWASInf (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:43:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161277AbWASIne (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:43:34 -0500 Received: from usmimesweeper.bluearc.com ([63.203.197.133]:12307 "EHLO us-mimesweeper.terastack.bluearc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161276AbWASIne convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:43:34 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java). Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:43:25 -0000 Message-ID: <89E85E0168AD994693B574C80EDB9C2703555F85@uk-email.terastack.bluearc.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Out of Memory: Killed process 16498 (java). Thread-Index: AcYc1GmD8gB76EyOS1qVvL9C8X/bMg== From: "Andy Chittenden" To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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). My hardware: amd64 based machine (ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard) with 4Gb of memory. My kernel: debian package linux-image-2.6.15-1-amd64-k8 package installed. IE its running 2.6.15 compiled for amd64. This is repeatable. The above dd command also causes the machine to become very unresponsive (eg windows don't focus). -- Andy, BlueArc Engineering