On 2013-04-30, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
My first guess on mysterious process death on Linux is always the kernel out-of-memory killer. But I think that is logged somewhere.
By default the OOM messages should go to the kernel ring buffer (so use dmesg to see). I think that they also go to syslog, so should also be in /var/log/messages.
--keith