On 12 October, 2000 - Scott D. Anderson sent me these 0.7K bytes:
> Thanks to the hard work of the wizards here, I've used fvwm1 and 2 for
> years, recently switching to fvwm2 on RedHat Linux 6.2. It's run fine for
> months, but this morning, I came in to find myself logged out. Very odd.
> I looked at the output of "dmesg" and I saw:
>
> VM: killing process fvwm2
>
> Who is VM? (Virtual Memory?) Why did it kill my fvwm2?
It's the virtual memory that ran out of memory and looked for a good
victim to get rid of.. Your fvwm2 ran out of luck and had to die. Linux'
Out-of-memory handler isn't very bright..
> How can I prevent a repeat of this?
Don't run out of memory ;P
/Tomas
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Received on Thu Oct 12 2000 - 15:13:22 BST