On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:18:14AM -0600, Medora Schauer wrote:
> I found this in /var/log/messages:
>
> Dec 1 09:23:40 Qc kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> Dec 1 09:23:40 Qc kernel: VM: killing process postmaster
>
> Is this because we are running out of memory?
>
> Our file system is ext3.
Umm, yeah. Looks like you totally ran out of free memory. Do you have
sufficient swap setup?
Have a nice day,
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