How to read oom-killer syslog messages?
- by Grant
I have a Ubuntu 12.04 server which sometimes dies completely - no SSH, no ping, nothing until it is physically rebooted.
After the reboot, I see in syslog that the oom-killer killed, well, pretty much everything.
There's a lot of detailed memory usage information in them. How do I read these logs to see what caused the OOM issue? The server has…