RE: Odd kernel messages

OK, so you stressed the system out of memory.  Nothing to write about
here, it did what it was supposed to do (the oom-killer was invoked, as
evidenced by your log messages).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Houston
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:42 PM
> To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
> Subject: Re: Odd kernel messages
> 
> 
> The System is a Dell Precision 370 where the non-Red Hat 
> Softwares include 
> the nVidia Video Driver provided by DELL and BOINC/SETI@HOME 
> (V5.15 KWSN 
> for SSE2 Client).  System Load from the SETI@HOME Client was 
> compounded by 
> a large USB 2.0 Drive to USB 1.1 Drive Transfer being 
> performed in the 
> Background.  This extra load was also causing SENDMAIL to 
> generate System 
> Messages such as the following one:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------
> Feb 25 19:32:41 XXXXXX sendmail[11620]: rejecting connections 
> on daemon MTA: load average: 12
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------
> 
> The SYSLOG Entries terminated when the very last USB to USB Transfer 
> completed, although that very last USB to USB Transfer was begun well 
> before the SYSLOG Entries started appearing (after other USB to USB 
> Transfers had already been started and completed).
> 

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