On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:18:14AM -0600, Medora Schauer wrote: > I found this in /var/log/messages: > > Dec 1 09:23:40 Qc kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed > (gfp=0x1d2/0) > Dec 1 09:23:40 Qc kernel: VM: killing process postmaster > > Is this because we are running out of memory? > > Our file system is ext3.
Umm, yeah. Looks like you totally ran out of free memory. Do you have sufficient swap setup? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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