David Mitchell <david.mitchell@telogis.com> writes:
>> If you're running Linux, it's possible that your system is
>> overcommitted and low on memory and the kernel is picking random
>> processes to kill. There should be entries in the syslogs related to
>> this, if that's what's happening. There are ways to tell (some
>> versions of) Linux not to overcommit memory.
>
> Cheers Doug, that's exactly what it was. That explains a lot of
> mysterious process deaths recently.
>
> Thanks heaps
Glad to help!
I have /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory set to 2 on all my critical
servers...
-Doug