I was not sure either what was this VM when I saw it first. Searching this on google I soon realized that this is Virtual Memory Manager. It looks like you did miss virtual memory, so Linux decided to find a good program to kill (linux kernel keep a score for that, OOM score I think, Out Of Memory score) to decide which one to kill.
You should probably: cat /proc/meminfo (maybe post the result here) to check if swap partition is mounted and active. -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
