Re: oom-killer kicks in, how to find which process eat up memory?

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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:10:17PM +0530, Vishal Thanki wrote:
> Jeffrey Cao wrote:
>> On 2009-04-21, Vishal Thanki <vishalthanki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>   
>>> Fire "top" command which will display which application is using how  
>>> much memory.
>>>     
>>
>> Vishal, thank you.
>> But after oom-kill, the memory recovers to the normal state.
>> All processes behave well.
>>
>>   
> Thats because the OOM killer may have selected the process which was  
> taking most of the memory. You can do one thing, run "top" in a separate  
> session, and then run your application in different session.  
> Continuously observer the "top" output, because it will reveal which  
> process is taking most of the time.
>
This bug is hard to reproduce. I've tried to test to reproduce this bug for
about two weeks without any success.

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