Re: process killed

[Brian Hays <brian.hays@gmail.com>]

Ian,

No errors show up under 'dmesg' and gdb returns "not in executable format".

If you like I can provide you access via ssh to this domU for testing.
I've seen a few other posts related to java problems ...my debugging
skills in this area are probably lacking.

Thanks,
Brian 

On 4/28/05, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, Ive tried it with 64MB all the way up to 512MB of RAM
> > allocated to the domU. I definitely think it's related to
> > memory though...As soon as I start the DigiChat process you
> > can see the memory spike full and it doesn't seem to use swap
> > at all....about a second or two after starting it will just
> > give the process ID and say "killed".
> 
> Have you tried 'dmesg' to see if the OOM killer logs anything?
> Also, try running the thing under gdb.
> Ian
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> >
> > On 4/28/05, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:24:41PM -0400, Brian Hays wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've come across a strange problem when installing a particular
> > > > software package in a domU. I'm trying to install DigiChat
> > > > (http://www.digichat.com/downloads.html) and the process is
> > > > immediately killed.
> > >
> > > Killed how?  With what signal?
> > >
> > > My guess is OOM.  Add more memory to domU and see if that helps.
> > >
> > > > Is there anything about Java that Xen doesn't play nice
> > with right
> > > > now?
> > >
> > > My guess is that it uses lots of memory.
> > >
> > > Does the JVM use TLS a lot?  I'm guessing not if it works under UML.
> > > Something else to check anyhow.
> > >
> >
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