23 Jan
2008
23 Jan
'08
7:43 p.m.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 at 1:38pm, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote
I was running a simple script and the system became unresponsive. I went to the console and couldn't get it to respond, so I had to POWER OFF! Ugh!
(Note: this script, get-backup, ran fine on a CentOS 4.5 system)
Looking through /var/log/messages, I see:
Jan 23 12:52:14 DoyleBrunson kernel: ps invoked oom-killer:
*snip*
Ideas as to a methodology to diagnose the problem?
Figure out what part of your script is taking up so much memory.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF