Re: homicidal kernel

[Danny Sauer <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 07:14:27AM -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:16:32PM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
> > I keep getting messages in my syslog like:
> > 	Feb 11 14:02:50 cloud233 kernel: VM: killing process start
> 
> That's the OOM (Out Of Memory) killer.
> 
> > The kernel is
> > 	sauer@cloud233:~ > uname -a
> > 	Linux cloud233 2.2.14 #2 Mon May 22 20:48:29 CDT 2000 i686 unknown
> > so I suppose that should be updated, but it just started odoing this
> > recently.
> 
> I'd bet VM bugs in that kernel.  Something made it unhappy.  You
> really should upgrade it to the latest 2.2.x (to fix security
> problems, if nothing else).

Are you saying that it's a bad thing to have a very out-of-date kernel
running a production server that's available via the internet?  Man, the
things you can learn on this list. ;)

--Danny, who should probably just ditch the PPro

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