Re: Why OOM is killing my processes?



On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:48 -0300, Edson Noboru Yamada wrote:

I have a RHEL4 running on a HP DL580 G4 machine with 16 GB of RAM and almost
the same of swap.

[snip]

Low memory starvation is most likely the problem - been there, done
that! See my recent post: 'OOM killer "Out of Memory: Killed process"
SOLUTIONS / SUMMARY'. I recently experienced the same thing on a
similar server running VMware.

-Eric

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