2.1.65: error with kerneld

[David E. Fox]

Another strange problem with 2.1.65. Forgive me if it's already
been reported. If anyone has a good solution email me, or let
me know that it's all right.

Anyhow, I see this rather interesting message in my syslog
flle:

Dec  4 06:20:13 belvdere kerneld: error: exit: Out of memory

At the time, I was just starting up and playing with the
new 4.0 StarOffice program, which is a monster(!) in terms
of memory use. I have a 16 meg RAM system (64 megs of 
swap space) and I was monitoring available swap at around
the same time, and there was ample space -- only about half
of the swap partition was in use.

And curiously, note that the timestamp here is in GMT, not in
PST as all the other syslog entries. This seems rather strange,
to say the least.

The next line in syslog tells me:

Dec  3 22:29:41 belvdere PAM_pwdb[8635]: (su) session closed for user root 

So, it was a few mins after this that I closed the su session. It
seems therefore (not 100% sure) that the offending message was
caused in some part by StarOffice (it did error out). I'll have
to give that another try. (The 4.0 version I have has all 
messages in German, so I'll have to pay particular attention to what
the error message was and see if I can replicate it.)

At any rate, kerneld is no longer running. Should I just go ahead
and restart it?

And could this be (assuming ample VM existed) related to the
'cannot fork' problem extant in 2.1.65?

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