Re: X killed

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
> My point is that there is no way to tell what kills me. No messages in
> syslog...nothing. Surely the OOM killer would send a message to ksyslog, or at
> least dmesg?
>
Yes, OOM usually does printk(). So it depends on how you have syslog set 
up (and the console loglevel - which is reponsible for bringing it right 
to console).


Jan Engelhardt
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