Finding which process was killed by Linux OOM killer [closed]

linux linux-kernel

Try this out:

grep -i 'killed process' /var/log/messages

linux linux-kernel

Try this so you don't need to worry about where your logs are:

dmesg -T | egrep -i 'killed process'

-T, --ctime - Print human-readable timestamps.

linux linux-kernel

Now dstat provides the feature to find out in your running system which process is candidate for getting killed by oom mechanism

dstat --top-oom --out-of-memory---  kill score java           77 java           77 java           77

and as per man page

  --top-oom          show process that will be killed by OOM the first

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