Finding which process was killed by Linux OOM killer

Question

When Linux runs out of memory (OOM), the OOM killer chooses a process to kill based on some heuristics (it's an interesting read: http://lwn.net/Articles/317814/). How do I find out which processes were recently killed by the OOM killer?

Answer 1

Try this out:

cat /var/log/messages | grep --ignore-case "killed process"