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RE: [Xen-devel] process killed

To: "Brian Hays" <brian.hays@xxxxxxxxx>, "Chris Wedgwood" <cw@xxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] process killed
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:25:20 +0100
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> Yeah, Ive tried it with 64MB all the way up to 512MB of RAM 
> allocated to the domU. I definitely think it's related to 
> memory though...As soon as I start the DigiChat process you 
> can see the memory spike full and it doesn't seem to use swap 
> at all....about a second or two after starting it will just 
> give the process ID and say "killed".

Have you tried 'dmesg' to see if the OOM killer logs anything?
Also, try running the thing under gdb.
Ian
 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
> On 4/28/05, Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:24:41PM -0400, Brian Hays wrote:
> > 
> > > I've come across a strange problem when installing a particular 
> > > software package in a domU. I'm trying to install DigiChat
> > > (http://www.digichat.com/downloads.html) and the process is 
> > > immediately killed.
> > 
> > Killed how?  With what signal?
> > 
> > My guess is OOM.  Add more memory to domU and see if that helps.
> > 
> > > Is there anything about Java that Xen doesn't play nice 
> with right 
> > > now?
> > 
> > My guess is that it uses lots of memory.
> > 
> > Does the JVM use TLS a lot?  I'm guessing not if it works under UML.
> > Something else to check anyhow.
> >
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