kernel error question: application bug (perl)

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:20:59AM -0600, olga at urbantimes.net wrote:
 
 > Nov 15 21:03:01 kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 9732 (perl).
 > Nov 15 21:06:08 kernel: application bug: perl(1292) has SIGCHLD set to
 > SIG_IGN but calls wait().
 > Nov 15 21:06:08 kernel: (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait').
 > Workaround activated.
 > 
 > What does this indicate? Can someone help me please.

Short answer: your perl script ate every bit of ram and swap space.

btw, that seems to be from some ancient kernel. Upgrading may help,
but if your perl script is written to consume more memory than the
system has available, there's not a great deal the kernel can do.

		Dave

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