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Re: System exiting due to kernel....



On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:55:23PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote:
>   ..., but what is an OOM Killer?

OOM = out of memory.

The OOM killer is responsible for killing processes when the system is
running out of virtual memory (so the system itself will "stay alive").

(In your case it hit the X server -- which might be considered
suboptimal, with respect to keeping damage to the end user to a
minimum... ;)

Cheers,
Almut



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