On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ)
<Robert.Burgholzer@deq.virginia.gov> wrote:
> Joe,
> Thanks - I will try to check into this - however, we have done some tuning
> on the memory over the last 2 years and gotten it such that it is seldom if
> every having to dip into its swap too substantially -- according to "top",
> we remain under 1% swap usage during most times. Generally speaking, I run
> 3-5 of these large PHP processes simultaneously with no issue, however, when
> I issue even a "median" function call, after several calls (no consistent
> pattern that I can discern), the backend crashes.
>
> If this were the OOM killer - any way I would diagnose it?
If it's the OOM killer it'll be in your /var/log/messages log.