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Subject: Re: Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory
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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:19:35 +0200
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Mark H Johnson writes:
> Also - have you checked the console / system logs for any indication
> that the OOM killer is at work?

Thanks for pointing to the system log.  I hadn't thought of that.  Yes
indeed, the kernel kills the process:

kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
kernel: VM: killing process test_250076

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Ludovic Brenta.