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Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 05 August 2004 23:24, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >I'll commit the obvious one-liner fix, since it might explain _some_
> >problems people have seen.
> >
> >		Linus
> 
> I had to reboot late last night, out of memory and things (like 
> mozilla (1.7.2) were dying, but nothing in the logs.

Please wait for it to happen again, then send the contents of
/proc/meminfo, /proc/slabinfo and then do

	su
	dmesg -c
	echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger
	dmesg > foo

and send foo as well.