Saturday, January 31, 2026

Re: Processes getting killed on OpenBSD 7.8 arm64 RPi5

On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 09:08:23AM +0000, mabi wrote:
> I have a Raspberry Pi 5 with OpenBSD 7.8 installed and randomly I get a
> process killed. This happens multiple times per day with the SSH daemon
> where I need to restart it (I added a cronjob as workaround now) and
> sometimes when running the "ps" command. In that I case I just see "Killed"
> in the output and the "ps" outputs nothing.
>
> Regarding SSH there doesn't seem anything being logged either in
> /var/log/auth.log.
>
> Could this indicate a hardware issue?

Do you have swap configured? Running without swap on arm64 is the most
obvious cause for the behaviour you describe.

If it's not that, please provide a dmesg. Bug reports without dmesg are
mostly useless.

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