On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 at 1:38pm, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote > I was running a simple script and the system became unresponsive. I > went to the console and couldn't get it to respond, so I had to POWER > OFF! Ugh! > > (Note: this script, get-backup, ran fine on a CentOS 4.5 system) > > Looking through /var/log/messages, I see: > > Jan 23 12:52:14 DoyleBrunson kernel: ps invoked oom-killer: *snip* > Ideas as to a methodology to diagnose the problem? Figure out what part of your script is taking up so much memory. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF