[188144.606276] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3255 8053 8053
[188144.606288] DMA32 free:24252kB min:4636kB low:5792kB high:6952kB active_anon:2755804kB inactive_anon:350564kB active_file:736kB inactive_file:380kB unevictable:0kB present:3334048kB pages_scanned:288 all_unreclaimable? no
[188144.606295] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 4797 4797
[188144.606306] Normal free:7368kB min:6832kB low:8540kB high:10248kB active_anon:4094700kB inactive_anon:682632kB active_file:1520kB inactive_file:1148kB unevictable:0kB present:4912640kB pages_scanned:1120 all_unreclaimable? no
[188144.606313] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
[188144.606319] DMA: 4*4kB 2*8kB 2*16kB 2*32kB 2*64kB 2*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 3*4096kB = 15872kB
[188144.606336] DMA32: 4042*4kB 2*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 2*4096kB = 24376kB
[188144.606352] Normal: 781*4kB 3*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 7244kB
[188144.606368] 1337 total pagecache pages
[188144.606371] 0 pages in swap cache
[188144.606375] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
[188144.606378] Free swap = 0kB
[188144.606381] Total swap = 0kB
[188144.658873] 2097136 pages RAM
[188144.658878] 59457 pages reserved
[188144.658881] 5356 pages shared
[188144.658883] 2021527 pages non-shared
[188144.658889] Out of memory: kill process 4574 (bash) score 40435 or a child
[188144.658929] Killed process 5193 (ipython)
Its ages since I have seen something similar. And imagine that this machine has 8Gbyte of RAM and 16Gbyte of swap :O
Update
Now I noticed that the swap was offline…. poor me :S