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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>
Cc: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	linux mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: X killed
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:41:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060117214149.GA30467@w.ods.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <728201270601171332v6c95df17u167d15212dde66c4@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:32:11PM -0600, Ram Gupta wrote:
> On 1/17/06, James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > >>My point is that there is no way to tell what kills me. No messages in
> > >>syslog...nothing. Surely the OOM killer would send a message to ksyslog, or at
> > >>least dmesg?
> 
> You may try using strace . It may throw some light on the cause of the problem.

I would particularly suggest using 'strace -tt' both on X and on the
python process. It will make it easier to analyse the causes later. You
might even encounter a bug in the python application causing an explicit
kill of a miscalculated pid (although unlikely, but who knows ?).

> Regards
> Ram gupta

Regards,
Willy


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-17 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-15 17:36 X killed James Courtier-Dutton
2006-01-15 19:27 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-01-17 12:40   ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-01-17 20:12     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-17 20:17       ` Lee Revell
2006-01-19 16:06         ` Nix
2006-01-17 20:54       ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-01-17 21:32         ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-17 21:41           ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2006-01-19 11:09             ` James Courtier-Dutton

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