On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:16:52 +0200, Franz Reinhardt wrote: > Hi, > > on my linux system, I've got the following message: > _alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed. Killing application foo > > Can anybody explain me, what's happening ? Is it just a memory leak of the > application ? Or has it to do with reusing swapped memory pages ? It's an out-of-memory kill. You were out of memory. Completely. So the kernel decided that the only way to get the page was to kill some process. And did so, using SIGKILL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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