Am Dienstag, 1. Juni 2004 09:12 schrieben Sie: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:16:52 +0200, Franz Reinhardt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > on my linux system, I've got the following message: > > _alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed. Killing application foo > > > > Can anybody explain me, what's happening ? Is it just a memory leak of > > the > > > application ? Or has it to do with reusing swapped memory pages ? > > It's an out-of-memory kill. You were out of memory. Completely. So the > kernel decided that the only way to get the page was to kill some > process. And did so, using SIGKILL. > How can this happen ? I mean, you can't allocate new memory if it's not available, you'll get a NULL-pointer if you try to malloc(). And if you try to access to that memory, the application will end up with an segmentation fault. Franz -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
