Re: X killed

[Willy Tarreau]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:32:11PM -0600, Ram Gupta wrote:
> On 1/17/06, James Courtier-Dutton <James@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > >>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?
> 
> You may try using strace . It may throw some light on the cause of the problem.

I would particularly suggest using 'strace -tt' both on X and on the
python process. It will make it easier to analyse the causes later. You
might even encounter a bug in the python application causing an explicit
kill of a miscalculated pid (although unlikely, but who knows ?).

> Regards
> Ram gupta

Regards,
Willy

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