Keith Keller wrote: > On 2013-04-30, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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. They do, indeed, go to messages. I've seen them *far* too frequently here (serious heavy-duty multi-threaded scientific computing, or R, will eat *everything*). mark