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From: Balram Adlakha <b_adlakha@softhome.net>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: out of memory
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Why does my system logs have:
kernel : out of memory, killed process (xyz)

I have 256mb ram, and a huge swap partition which never gets used!
I am currently on 2.5.60 but i've been having this problem for a long time...