Who "Killed" my process?

[sbq]

Greetings,

My application runs as a background process. It is currently started at the command line in a Terminal window.

Recently a user was executing the application for a while and it died mysteriously. The text:

Killed

was on the terminal. This happened two times. I asked if someone at a different Terminal used the kill command to kill the process? No.

Under what conditions would Linux/Terminal decide to kill my process and cause "Killed" to be displayed?

-Sam

[sbq]

I figured out an answer. I wrote a program that allocated memory in an infinite loop. The system got really slow, then "Killed" was displayed and the process was terminated. There were log messages in /var/log/kern.log about what happened.