I guess this might have something to do with that I have no swap partition and no file, I disabled that.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022172 Title: Not enough memory to kill process Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: So I was running a process that had a memory leak (1.9 gb RAM) of which I was unaware of, then I was starting up a virtual machine in VirtualBox. My system runs out of memory and things go awry, VirtualBox gets into guru meditation and crashes and the whole system gets unusable. I try to kill VirtualBox to no avail. $ killall virtualbox bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory I have no memory. So I try to free memory. But I can't free memory. Because I have no memory. So instead of greedily consuming every single little last byte of memory, please reserve a couple of puny bytes so that I can run 'kill' or 'killall' when things go awry. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1022172/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
