On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 19:53:14 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > Earlier kernels didn't report in-kernel memory allocation failures, > as far as I remember. > It was just a temporary memory shortage, and not a fatal error. > Whatever job you were running will eventually just complete as if > nothing happened. Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the quick reply, by the way :) - Frode