Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964799AbWAQUMi (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:12:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964798AbWAQUMi (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:12:38 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:62439 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964799AbWAQUMi (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:12:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:12:37 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: James Courtier-Dutton cc: Willy Tarreau , linux mailing-list Subject: Re: X killed In-Reply-To: <43CCE5C8.7030605@superbug.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <43CA883B.2020504@superbug.demon.co.uk> <20060115192711.GO7142@w.ods.org> <43CCE5C8.7030605@superbug.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 19 > > 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 -- | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ | jengelh's site, http://jengelh.hopto.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/