On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 02:52:16PM -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: > Gentle People: > > I have a question about "The Curious Mystery Of Killed Process At 4:56 > AM"? For some while now I have been developing a optimization > application, which depending on the machine may run for several days. > > The development process has played out over a month or more of > testing, finding many bugs including several Segmentation Fault > Crashes, which are usually found and fixed with the help of GDB. > > Now I have a new one: After running for several days the > application terminates, and prints "Killed" in the shell window. Now > know this did not likely occur via the keyboard because of physical > security. Can a process kill itself? Is this simply caused by a bug > which must be chased down? Could this be caused by a shortage of > resources? Memory? Threads? Is there a limit on the number of > threads? I was thinking of user limits. Check the "ulimit" command for a list of limits imposed on user processes. For example, my current open files limit is 1024. Are you opening files and not closing unneeded ones? A limit new to me is "signals pending". Might you be ignoring signals to avoid being killed? Maybe something is generating signals to your process and they queued until the limit was exceeded. jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx