Firefox dies OOM - F11

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:10:44 -0500
Steven Stern wrote:

> I can't  (yet) 
> predict when it will occur.

That's because the OOM killer just picks things at random
to kill, and not always the things using the memory. I
once stuck a ps command like this in cron.hourly

/bin/ps -e -L -o vsz,rsz,pid,ppid,tid,args -w -w

and collected the output in a log file I could poke
around in with a perl script to find out what process
was actually growing over time and was the real cause
of the OOM killer going off.