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Yes, it's very hard to track down the cause of the memory problem in this situation. Even just the output of a ps before killing took place would be very helpful.<BR>
When memory + swap is all used it's very difficult to log in and run these sorts of commands.<BR>
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On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 21:09 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Naoki wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Hi all,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I've just had oom killer toast a process. From the messages can I tell</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> how much memory (real/swap) this process was using before it was</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> blasted?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'm not sure it's useful to know that:-( In my experience (which </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">includes 2.6 kernels that are supposed to do this better) the killed </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">process is generally an innocent bystander.</FONT>
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