I found nothing in the syslog.  I searched for the term "signal" in the
host syslog and found nothing.  In the guest, there is no message
either.  Not that big a deal, but it's one of those things that would be
nice.

Jonas

Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:16:03PM -0500, Jonas Meyer wrote:
>> So it turns out that if your /dev/shm fills up (or wherever uml is
>> keeping the memory files), it crashes the machine that is requesting
>> more memory silently.  I increased the size of my /dev/shm by about 4x,
>> and the problem has been solved.  Still, UML should write something to
>> syslog on the host or guest...
> 
> It does, at least in every case I've seen.  In older UMLs, you get a 
> panic "kernel mode signal 7".  In recent UMLs, you get that, plus a reminder
> to look at your /dev/shm or /tmp.
> 
>                               Jeff
> 

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