Making sense of OOM killer messages?

[Naoki]

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.
When memory + swap is all used it's very difficult to log in and run
these sorts of commands.

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 21:09 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:

> 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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