Why is Linux swallowing my processes?

[Jon Miller]

I was suppose to also, but they forgot to increase the size of the home directory... so there was a lot of space sitting their wasted.

JM

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
? Don't know how to do this.

Depends on the language...I was assuming this was something you had written. I'm not sure how to force it if you're just piping the output to a file.

[KrazyHorse]

Uh oh...

Might be a space problem...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi

Depends on the language...I was assuming this was something you had written. I'm not sure how to force it if you're just piping the output to a file.

The formatted data is being written inside the program (fortran...ugh)

Some other crap I don't want messing with my nice clean formatted data gets printed out any time you run it too. I piped this to logfile (along with stderr)

[Thue]

Make sure it isn't running out of virtual memory, and being killed by the OOM killer.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I doubt I'm using FAT. This is a departmental machine. It's never seen anything other than linux on it.

Is there a variable which stores filesystem format information?

mount, and if it's FAT you should run away and never return .

Anyway, you might want to see what the process is doing with strace. Preferably by starting the process, getting its pid, and running strace -p pid 2>&1 |tail -n 500 because 1. strace will output a *lot* of text and you won't be interested in most of it and 2. attaching separately means you'll get your strace output separate of your program's output.

[KrazyHorse]

All right. I'm at 9 hours and counting. I think I might have been running into a diskspace problem. I removed some old junk. Should have plenty of space now. Need to talk to sysadmin to give me more diskspace though.