Re: Tracing SIGKILL, is that possible?

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:46:58 -0300, "Daniel." said:

Is there a way to track signals, specially SIGKILL. I would like to know if some process dies because reach some resource limit, because an OMM error or something likewise..

Depends on where you want the tracking to go. But your first thing to try would probably be: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals which controls this code in kernel/signal.c: static void print_fatal_signal(int signr) { struct pt_regs *regs = signal_pt_regs(); printk("%s/%d: potentially unexpected fatal signal %d.\n", current->comm, task_pid_nr(current), signr); Bahh. That's missing a KERN_INFO. Patch submitted.