RH9 kernel OOM messages

[Bruce Dawson]

> ... I have a machine which runs a
> cron job that does a virus scan on some directories each night.  When the
> machine was running RH 7.1 (Linus kernel sources) this was fine, but know
> that I am running RH 9 (RedHat kernel sources) I keep getting out of memory
> messages from the kernel and my process is killed.  Remember, this did not
> happen before. ...

Have you tried looking at your ulimit settings? The process is probably
exceeding the allowed swap space (or stack, or real memory, ...)

If this is the case, you can change your settings (if you're root) using
'ulimit -H' (along with a few other option - you'll have to read the man
page on ulimit for more details.