Executable got Killed

[Andy Barclay]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote

 >> On Monday 21 February 2005 23:19, James McKenzie wrote:
 >
 >>> > Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
 >>
 >>>> > > Hello,
 >>>> > > This maybe slightly OT, but I hope someone could give me some 
insight.
 >>>> > >
 >>>> > > I have an executable that when I tried to run it, it got killed:
 >>>> > >
 >>>> > > $> ./boltztrans
 >>>> > > Killed
 >>
 >>> >
 >>> > strace is your friend.  man strace for use.
 >
 >>
 >> Ah.. should have though of that. Thanks.
 >>
 >> But, when I 'strace programname', I only see two lines of output. 
The first
 >> being the program execution itself, and the second line is
 >> "+++ Killed by SIGKILL +++"


Check /var/log/messages for oom-killer. This sounds like the same *bug* 
that is biting me with FC3.

It seems that the kernel just randomly kills processes when it thinks 
its running low on memory rather than using swap as it should.

Andy.