Making sense of OOM killer messages?
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Nov 28 13:09:12 UTC 2005
Naoki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just had oom killer toast a process. From the messages can I tell
> how much memory (real/swap) this process was using before it was
> blasted?
I'm not sure it's useful to know that:-( In my experience (which
includes 2.6 kernels that are supposed to do this better) the killed
process is generally an innocent bystander.
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Cheers
John
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