Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > I do "grep check-route.sh oom_2.6.11.3.txt | wc" and it shows 4365
duh, good catch! really! > lines, which means there're 4365 that script processes running, from > pid 4260 to12747, mostly with pretty low points, 123. > Based on this points, suppose each script consumes 100k, that'll be > 100k*4k=400M roughly. And your box's is merely 256M MemTotal. yes, i just checked, the script is looping and crond is starting a new one, and another....and the oom-killer does not catch it, because it's too small and of course don't know where it is coming from (crond). > Check this script and disable it; see what will happen. yes, will do that. on a (not so unimportant) side-note: i was told the whole thing should be fixed with 2.6.11.4: [PATCH] CAN-2005-0384: Remote Linux DoS on ppp servers after all it seems to be PEBKAC and bad luck...what a week. thank you for your help, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #416: We're out of slots on the server - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/