On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:01, Peter Teuben wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > On Monday 21 February 2005 23:19, James McKenzie wrote: > > > Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > This maybe slightly OT, but I hope someone could give me some > > > > insight. > > > > > > > > I have an executable that when I tried to run it, it got killed: > > > > > > > > $> ./boltztrans > > > > Killed > > > > > > strace is your friend. man strace for use. > > How do I figure out who send the SIGKILL ? FWIW, this program requires > > rather big amount of memory, is there a limit somewhere that send the > > SIGKILL? This is on a fresh installed FC3. > > i bet you have a program that declared too much memory on the stack, e.g. > in local variables. E.g. if you have (in C/C++ lingo) <snip> > You can try (using the limit command in csh) > to up the stacksize, but a better way is to either declare the variable Increasing the stacksize limit in bash using 'ulimit -s' didn't help before. I am still looking at the source code (it's in Fortran, 1MB size source) to try to figure out which part make this happens. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/MU/P/S d-(++) s: a-- C++(+++) UL++++ P-- L+++>++++ E- W+++ N+ o? K- w--- !O M- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X R- tv+ b++>+++ DI D(+) G e++>++++ h+(*) r++ y->++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------