Process "Killed"

[Eric Wertman]

> I'm doing some simple file manipulation work and the process gets
> "Killed" everytime I run it. No traceback, no segfault... just the
> word "Killed" in the bash shell and the process ends. The first few
> batch runs would only succeed with one or two files being processed
> (out of 60) before the process was "Killed". Now it makes no
> successful progress at all. Just a little processing then "Killed".

This is the behavior you'll see when your os has run out of some
memory resource.  The kernel sends a 9 signal.  I'm pretty sure that
if you exceed a soft limit your program will abort with out of memory
error.

Eric