Look at /var/log/messages, or maybe it might be in the output of the command "dmesg", to see if there is mention of killing the task.
The make says the thing was killed, using too much memory kills stuff. GeistGeld, that likes to eat itsself out of memory, gets killed for example when it uses too much.
I just don't recall offhand whether it was /var/log/messages or the 'dmesg' command, or maybe even both, where it was recorded that the thing had been killed.
(It was something like hmm gotta kill this or its child tasks, hmm, okay think I'll kill it, type of deal it seemed.)
So yeah throw more RAM and/or swap at it. Not sure if in all cases swap is as good (other than slower) as RAM or not, especially in virtual setups, and of course especially if ratio of swap to RAM gets into swap-thrashing territory where the swapping itself needs more RAM and so on in a loop where no real work ends up getting done. A quarter of a gig of RAM seems really tiny, but hopefully the kernel isn't included in that but is outside in the virtuality engine? Or is it?
-MarkM-
There's a swap partition for the kernel I think...not 100% sure.
It was the cheapest option xD
I'm trying with 2gb swap, tried the commands above but those don't seem to work on 12.10.
It's a pity there's no 13.04 image at the vps' site.
can I send you my XPM address to tip me back? Surely, I was worth an easy $10 credit 
