I am running httperf client on my m/c and after few seconds it is getting killed. dmesg shows: The command is: httperf --hog --client=0/1 --server=39.0.0.2 --port=80 --uri=/50kb --rate=20000 --send-buffer=4096 --recv-buffer=16384 --num-conns=6000000 --num-calls=1 Although I had done this test no. of times but never faced this error any time. From last two days I am observing this. My Ubuntu version is ubuntu 10.04. and httperf version is httperf-0.9.0 [ 2997.180620] Out of memory: kill process 7977 (apache2) score 70532 or a child [ 2997.180632] Killed process 7977 (apache2) [ 2997.184837] Out of memory: kill process 7971 (rsyslogd) score 8702 or a child [ 2997.184844] Killed process 7971 (rsyslogd) [ 2997.188823] Out of memory: kill process 7978 (apache2) score 1354 or a child [ 2997.188829] Killed process 7978 (apache2) [ 2997.192817] Out of memory: kill process 7973 (atd) score 561 or a child [ 2997.192822] Killed process 7973 (atd) [ 2997.196805] Out of memory: kill process 8102 (httperf) score 471 or a child [ 2997.196811] Killed process 8102 (httperf) Output of free command: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3862768 163000 3699768 0 2384 13068 -/+ buffers/cache: 147548 3715220 Swap: 3905528 0 3905528