Suse 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.104-default I'm getting an Out of Memory in the middle of the night. I'm not sure if this is due to a memory leak, or it could be related to my backup process, which is starting at 02:00. Is there a way to determine which process is hogging all the memory? I started to write a shell script to run ps and catch the offender, but didn't get very far. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this problem? Thanks, Larry Here is what shows up in messages: Sep 12 02:21:59 bashful kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 10600 (kdesktop_lock). Sep 12 02:23:58 bashful kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 11963 (y2base). Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: kdesktop_lock: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x1d2 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: Call Trace: Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [__alloc_pages+857/864] __alloc_pages+0x359/0x360 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [<c013fc49>] __alloc_pages+0x359/0x360 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [do_page_cache_readahead+236/304] do_page_cache_readahead+0xec/0x130 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [<c0140e9c>] do_page_cache_readahead+0xec/0x130 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [filemap_nopage+237/944] filemap_nopage+0xed/0x3b0 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [<c013b3cd>] filemap_nopage+0xed/0x3b0 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [do_no_page+471/1824] do_no_page+0x1d7/0x720 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [<c01478b7>] do_no_page+0x1d7/0x720 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [handle_mm_fault+267/2352] handle_mm_fault+0x10b/0x930 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [<c0148acb>] handle_mm_fault+0x10b/0x930 Sep 12 02:24:19 bashful kernel: [do_page_fault+329/1266] do_page_fault+0x149/0x4f2 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [<c01193f9>] do_page_fault+0x149/0x4f2 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [timer_interrupt+551/640] timer_interrupt+0x227/0x280 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [<c010dd77>] timer_interrupt+0x227/0x280 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [__pollwait+0/208] __pollwait+0x0/0xd0 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [<c016a3f0>] __pollwait+0x0/0xd0 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [vfs_read+179/256] vfs_read+0xb3/0x100 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [<c0158e73>] vfs_read+0xb3/0x100 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [sys_read+129/208] sys_read+0x81/0xd0 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [<c0159091>] sys_read+0x81/0xd0 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [do_page_fault+0/1266] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4f2 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [<c01192b0>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4f2 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [error_code+45/64] error_code+0x2d/0x40 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [<c0108e0d>] error_code+0x2d/0x40 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: kdesktop_lock: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x1d2 Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: Call Trace: Sep 12 02:24:20 bashful kernel: [__alloc_pages+857/864] __alloc_pages+0x359/0x360 ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.