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- From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Vanishing processes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.160419.17269@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 16:04:19 GMT
- References: <2457@cronos.metaphor.com>
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- In article <2457@cronos.metaphor.com> polk@Metaphor.COM (Ben Polk) writes:
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- >I posted recently with a description of a problem where at least three
- >different processes running on my machine are terminated by AIX. We
- >have verified that a Signal 9 is being sent by the kernel, and that
-
- the only way the kernel ever does this 2 u as far as i know is if
- your program mallocs lots of space it never frees, uses up all the
- paging space and then the kernel kills it to free up that space.
-
- ps aux will tell you how much paging space your program is using.
- .
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- curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Curt L. Finch) | AIX NFS/NIS Field Quality
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