dmesg ----- init invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0 [] out_of_memory+0x72/0x1a3 [] __alloc_pages+0x24e/0x2cf [] __do_page_cache_readahead+0xbd/0x178 [] filemap_nopage+0x157/0x34a [] __handle_mm_fault+0x179/0xaae [] do_page_fault+0x23c/0x531 [] do_page_fault+0x0/0x531 [] error_code+0x39/0x40 ======================= Mem-info: DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 DMA32 per-cpu: empty Normal per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 90, batch 15 used:27 cpu 0 cold: high 30, batch 7 used:6 HighMem per-cpu: empty Free pages: 2984kB (0kB HighMem) Active:30276 inactive:29637 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:746 slab:1505 mapped-file:798 mapped-anon:59034 pagetables:516 DMA free:1088kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:6308kB inactive:4176kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:33739 all_unreclaimable? yes lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 240 240 DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 240 240 Normal free:1896kB min:1920kB low:2400kB high:2880kB active:114796kB inactive:114372kB present:245760kB pages_scanned:423919 all_unreclaimable? yes lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1088kB DMA32: empty Normal: 0*4kB 1*8kB 2*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1896kB HighMem: empty 1122 pagecache pages Swap cache: add 196148, delete 195902, find 5482/5643, race 0+0 Free swap = 0kB Total swap = 779144kB Free swap: 0kB 65536 pages of RAM 0 pages of HIGHMEM 1770 reserved pages 4425 pages shared 246 pages swap cached 0 pages dirty 0 pages writeback 798 pages mapped 1505 pages slab 516 pages pagetables Out of memory: Killed process 22011, UID 0, (asterisk). free -m ------- total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 249 79 170 0 22 19 -/+ buffers/cache: 36 212 Swap: 760 8 752 lsof ---- COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME safe_aste 31631 root cwd DIR 33,2 4096 6802433 /tmp safe_aste 31631 root rtd DIR 33,2 4096 2 / safe_aste 31631 root txt REG 33,2 735804 6998679 /bin/bash safe_aste 31631 root mem REG 33,2 129900 6377283 /lib/ld-2.5.so safe_aste 31631 root mem REG 33,2 1693812 6377291 /lib/libc-2.5.so safe_aste 31631 root mem REG 33,2 20668 6377304 /lib/libdl-2.5.so safe_aste 31631 root mem REG 33,2 13084 6377340 /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 safe_aste 31631 root mem REG 33,2 50848 6377542 /lib/libnss_files-2.5.so safe_aste 31631 root mem REG 33,2 56422080 8483146 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive safe_aste 31631 root mem REG 33,2 25462 8570210 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache safe_aste 31631 root 0r CHR 1,3 1077 /dev/null safe_aste 31631 root 1u CHR 136,0 2 /dev/pts/0 safe_aste 31631 root 2u CHR 136,0 2 /dev/pts/0