[GRASS-user] v.clean process killed itselt!?

[Glynn Clements]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:

> > So long as you already have some swap, adding more won't reduce
> > physical RAM usage. So if it died due to exceeding the RSS limit
> > (ulimit -m) or the kernel's OOM (out-of-memory) killer, more swap
> > won't help.
> 
> Glynn, in the end of a previous post of mine [1] I have pasted the part
> of /var/log/messages which I believe corresponds to the "Kill" of
> v.clean. I read "oom" in two lines:
> 
> #1: Jan  9 00:02:40 vertical kernel: [179692.069294] main-menu invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0
> 
> #2: Jan  9 00:02:40 vertical kernel: [179692.069312] [<ffffffff802af87a>] oom_kill_process+0x9a/0x230
> 
> So RAM was(is?) the problem probably.

It certainly looks like it.

The above is definitely the OOM-killer in action, and the timing
(relative to the "w" command) suggests that it's likely to be related.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>