Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 04:05:27 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What's killing my processes? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000515040348.4202A-100000@aurora.scoop.co.nz>
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Something seems to be knocking off various processes on my server with the equivalent of a 'kill -9'. This has included processes run from the shell as root (make, pico) and some cron jobs. I'm guessing there's more, but those are the ones I have a little information on. The only thing I can think of that might do something like this is resource limits, but that seems unlikely to hit pico in mid use on a small file, and there's no apparent resource crunch going on. I think I can rule this out. Is there any other reason the kernel itself might issue KILL signals? How can I get information on what's going on? Is there some way I can put in a trace on any KILL signals issued on the system so I can identify the culprit process (or kernel)? I can get a list of killed processes from the system accounting (lastcomm), but I need the signal type and source. Any ideas? Andrew McNaughton -- Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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