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It seems my server killed a process due to it using too much RAM. Is this possible? If it can happen, how can I know when and what process it killed?

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It's quite possibly OOM killer, killed your process. You may be able to find out what when etc by looking in the logs.

egrep -i 'killed process' /var/log/messages

The actual log file varies by distribution so it could also be /var/log/syslog or even 

egrep -i -r 'killed process' /var/log
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