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From: Phil Ehrens (pehrens_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-18 12:07:17


OOM-killer? Check dmesg.

Josh Stewart wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> I am running a very large MPI computation program that runs for
> approximately an hour and then is killed via SIGKILL. The program uses
> a large amount of memory and is creating several large files.
>
> Does anyone know under what circumstances this would be happening?

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