On Wed, March 8, 2006 21:00, Jan Johansson wrote: > Mar 7 19:20:41 cookiemonster kernel: Swap cache: add 637, delete 530, > find 111/130, race 0+0 Mar 7 19:20:41 cookiemonster kernel: Out of > Memory: Killed process 29237 (mysqld). > Mar 7 19:21:09 cookiemonster kernel: Swap cache: add 637, delete 530, > find 111/130, race 0+0 Mar 7 19:21:09 cookiemonster kernel: Out of > Memory: Killed process 26106 (apache2). hm, /me fails to see the relation to loop-aes here. sure, loading another module alters the kernel in some way, and accessing a loop-device could have an impact on the VM - but this just looks like an "ordinary" OOM error. at what stage did the error occur? > Running Debian 3.1 > cookiemonster:~/VMware# uname -a > Linux cookiemonster 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Tue Aug 16 13:22:48 UTC 2005 i686 hm, have you 1) tried a recent (vanilla) kernel? 2) searched debian/bugs for any OOM issues? is this reproducible in any way? if yes, did the recent kernel help? if not, you've got reason to Cc: LKML :) cheers, Christian. -- make bzImage, not war - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/