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jessexoc
September 3rd, 2006, 03:20 PM
I'm running a program (written in C and compiled with gcc) that is very CPU and ram intensive. When i run the program (from the command line), after a few minutes it terminates and says killed. It runs ok when it is scaled back.
What does this mean? How do i get around it?
LordHunter317
September 3rd, 2006, 04:48 PM
I'm running a program (written in C and compiled with gcc) that is very CPU and ram intensive. When i run the program (from the command line), after a few minutes it terminates and says killed. It runs ok when it is scaled back.
What does this mean? How do i get around it?It most likely means you tripped the kernel OOM (Out-Of-Memory) killer and it terminated your process because the system was out of memory.