Re: Making sense of OOM killer messages?

[John Summerfield]

Naoki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just had oom killer toast a process.  From the messages can I tell
> how much memory (real/swap) this process was using before it was
> blasted?

I'm not sure it's useful to know that:-( In my experience (which 
includes 2.6 kernels that are supposed to do this better) the killed 
process is generally an innocent bystander.