Making sense of OOM killer messages?

[John Summerfied]

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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