Questions tagged [oom]
Linux Out-of-memory Killer
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mariadb oom-killer on CentOS8 in EC2 t2.micro instance
I seem to be having memory problems in my t2.micro instance (1GB) running nginx, mariadb, php and WordPress.
I can see that mariadb.service is being killed regularly (I have used grep -e kill /var/log/...
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RHEL 8. linux OOM killer invoked to kill postgres process
Database is going to recovery mode whenever the OOM killer is invoked on the postgres process.
/var/log/messages output with respect to the issue
oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),...
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Daily Apt Upgrade causing oom-killer to kill my java server
My server has died several times in the middle of the night because of this. How much memory is apt-upgrade asking for? Is it being reasonable? I'm trying to decipher the logs here. Any help or ...
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Why cannot use buff/cache?
It seems mysqld allocates too much memory as buff/cache:
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 990 448 96 36 ...
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When the kernel says “Out of memory: Killed proces…” does it mean real memory or virtual memory?
Looking at journal -xe for the reason(s) a process is killed, the message comes up in red "Out of memory: Killed process..." but it doesn't say whether the limiting resource is virtual ...
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Missing swap usage in OOM killer logs
From the following log, I understand that the swap is full and probably this is why the oom killer is invoked. But when I add the swapents column I can't even remotely explain how the swap is full. ...
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Debugging OOM (core dump?) [duplicate]
I'm working on a piece of server software.
Usually it runs with RSS ~250 megabytes, but occasionally gets killed by the OOM, and looking at kernel log, it happens when the RSS grows to about 700 ...
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What contributes to memory “usage” in the OOM killer output in kernel 5.4
This is one of recent OOMs I've captured
Nov 3 03:00:24 node kernel: [ 457.525768] memory: usage 98304kB, limit 98304kB, failcnt 0
Nov 3 03:00:24 node kernel: [ 457.525769] memory+swap: usage ...
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fio 3.23 core dumps when bench-marking many small files
I have been asked to come up fio benchmark results for this test dataset: 1048576x1MiB. So, overall size is 1TiB. The set contains 2^20 1MiB files. The server runs CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core)...
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How do I track down a mysql memory issue on a server running a single WordPress site?
I'm having a weird issue. A few times a week, a website I'm running on Amazon Lightsail comes to a crashing halt and becomes IO bound (I can't usually use ssh when this happens) and the server runs ...
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mysqld crashing almost every hour - mysqld invoked oom-killer
I am running wordpress on a centOS digital ocean droplet
my mysql keeps crashing almost every hour -- with an out of memory error
manually restarting mysqld brings it back up via sudo service mysqld ...
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NFS server with out of memory
I have multiple machines sharing home directory via NFS share used by
6-10 users. All machines are used to run computational experiments including
the one with NFS server. Although it is very rare but ...
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Kubernetes Pod OOMKilled Issue
The scenario is we run some web sites based on an nginx image in kubernetes cluster. When we had our cluster setup with nodes of 2cores and 4GB RAM each. The pods had the following configurations, cpu:...
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Kill the most memory-hungry process when memory gets low [closed]
Sometimes my Linux desktop, laptop, or server run out of RAM because the experimental software I work with occasionally tries to use more RAM than I have available.
When this happens, the system and ...
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Out of memory in Linux server killing my tomcat server
From last night I am getting below unexpected behaviour.
Out of memory: Kill process 1740 (java) score 128 or sacrifice child
Apr 8 19:14:20 ubuntu-s-4vcpu-8gb-sgp1-01 kernel: [17644.393549] Out of ...
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apache httpd process be killed by kernel oom
some apache httpd process's memory and cpu usage too high, be killed by kernel, but I don't know why httpd use such many memory. I need some method to analyse or some method to reproduct.
some ...
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Why is systemd-resolve killing my java server?
I've been running into this problem where every few days one of my java servers is just dying. To figure out why, I ran cat /var/log/syslog which produces:
Sep 21 06:36:24 ip-172-31-42-5 systemd-...
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OOM despite the large amount of free SWAP
During some ML training htop shows usage of all RAM (16GB) and only 2G (out of 16GB) of SWAP when OOM happens.
dmesg shows:
[pon sie 12 11:53:44 2019] Purging GPU memory, 0 bytes freed, 131072 ...
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What Java -Xmx setting can I reasonably expect to work on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu server?
What is your experience? Can you confirm my experimental findings?
Can I generally use total RAM - 600 MB, or 0.4 * total RAM?
Or is it always trial and error, and hoping that it is low enough?
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What abbreviations in OOM Killer memory statistics report means?
When OOM Killer or kernel reports memory state it uses the next abbreviations
Node 0 DMA: 26*4kB (M) 53*8kB (UM) 33*16kB (ME) 23*32kB (UME) 6*64kB (ME) 7*128kB (UME) 1*256kB (M) 2*512kB (ME) 0*...
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Linux out of memory killer kills process when there is more than enough memory available
We are running a 64-Bit Ubuntu and our 32GB of physical memory is split into 3 zones (DMA: 16MB, DMA32: 4GB and Normal: 30GB). According to the dmesg logs printed below our system ran out of free ...
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OOM kills a process while there is still a lot of available memory
I am aware that there are many threads like this one, but none of them actually give a methodology on how to read an OOM message.
I have a db that is being monitored through NRPE for available ...
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Java application gets killed in kubernetes while the resource limits and heap size are specified
Background
A spring boot Java application is deployed in a kubernetes cluster and gets killed several times per day.
I'm using openjdk:8u181-jre for my Java apps.
Kubernetes version: v1.11.5
Node ...
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Enough memory but OOM killer invoked?
It has been a long time since my old friend the OOM killer came to visit me. Now it is coming by once a week and I cannot figure out why it’s triggered. It doesn’t seem that I’m missing memory. What ...
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Out of memory at 18% usage : where the ram goes?
This is related to : Out of memory at 72% usage
It looks to be the same problem but the question is slightly different : Where my memory goes ? I have 18% memory usage and my OOM Killer is killing ...
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Linux OOM-killer acting despite plenty available memory
Once a week or so the OOM-killer shoots down a postgres process in my server, despite that 'free' states it has plenty of available memory.
I have read several threads here and there, but cant see ...
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OOM killer kills process though page cache is never evicted
Our servers in production sometimes under load runs into the following issue (Linux 4.10):
Application handling the load (webserver) is running at high load.
A new job starts (e.g. cron). This ...
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“bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory” for any command - how to prevent this at OS level?
I was testing how an Ubuntu 16.04 machine handles low memory conditions and had several suspended jobs that that used up almost all the RAM on the server. I was still able to run normal bash commands ...
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Linux OOM: Trying to understand memory statistics / mismatch with expected values
I am trying to understand why the OOM killer has reaped a process on a KVM virtual machine running with 1 gigabyte of memory. While I do already know that running Linux machines without swap is not ...
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Is there any legitimate reason to mlock all of a process's mmaped files?
I'm administering some Linux servers that are running an httpd based application developed by one of our apps teams. This is in EC2 and each host has 32GB of RAM. I've noticed that there is about once ...
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Long page allocation stalls on Linux – why does this happen?
I have a problem (which I can reliably reproduce) on a bunch of Linux hosts, where the system becomes completely unresponsive after a process aggressively consumes memory. I see things like this in ...
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GKE's Container-Optimized OS Out-Of-Memory freezes
I have issue with Container-Optimized OS on GKE. If I run this simple command https://pastebin.com/raw/0WPAnAzn to consume all the RAM, at some point host freezes and doesn't respond to anything. ...
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Number of httpd processes and prefork.c
Hi I got OOM killer problems which caused:
[mpm_prefork:error] [pid 18103] (12)Cannot allocate memory: AH00159: fork: Unable to fork new process
I had to restart the server to get it working.
In /...
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VmRSS used to only about 25%, yet oom-killer strikes
I have a dedicated MySQL server equipped with 128 GB RAM. MySQL recently gets killed by the oom-killer, although MySQL is configured to use 95 GB in the worst case. In my research I came across this:
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Ansible throws an “ ERROR! A worker was found in a dead state ” error
When I run a playbook that simply copies a directory from one place to another, ansible throws
ERROR! A worker was found in a dead state
Error. After some googling, it looks like this is caused by ...
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OOM killer invoked despite tons of memory available? [duplicate]
I have a server where the OOM killer has been invoked once or twice almost each night since two weeks ago. The server should have more than enough memory it could free (cache/buffers, inactive_file ...
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Linux process killed even though enough memory available
I am investigating why two of our processes were killed by the Linux OOM killer - even though there seems to have been enough RAM and plenty of SWAP available at both times.
When I interpret it as by ...
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Slab reclaimable memory is not freed when needed
Correct me if I am wrong, but to my understanding slab reclaimable holds cached kernel objects which can be freed if needed. So if application needs to allocate more space, even if the 'free' memory ...
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OOM Killer on xenserver - 2832MB memory free - killing xapi
I am trying to understand why OOM killer starts killing processes when there is plenty of memory free on the server:
Result of uname -a:
Linux hostname 2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.8.0.835.170778xen #1 SMP ...
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ec2 not connecting on public IP after volume resize
I am hosting two Wordpress sites on two different AWS EC2 micro instances running LAMP.
I have been getting OOM kills and decided to resize the instances to small.
Since increase the size of the ...
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Baffling Memory leak. What is using ~10GB of memory on this system?
After running for about 18 hours, this system is using ~10GB of memory, causing the OOM-killer to be triggered when we run our usual tasks:
# free -h
total used free ...
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Linux - Logging process list during high memory usage
I'm trying to diagnose occasional spikes in memory usage on a Linux server. If the spikes are high enough the OOM Killer kicks in, which results in /var/log/messages containing a useful dump of the ...
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Adjust oom_score at process launch
I've got a few servers that have begun oom-killing their backup processes and, while I understand that encountering the oom condition is quite bad in itself, I need this process to not die so that ...
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AWS WordPress site - OOM kills Apache
This question was originally asked on StackOverflow.com, and I've duplicated it to the more appropriate ServerFault.com site. The original question, which I've voted to close, can be found here
I ...
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How can there ever be an OOM scenario on Linux (heuristics behind OOM killer)?
I am aware of the concept of virtual memory. And with demand paging (depending on vm.overcommit_memory) you are able to allocate more memory than available RAM. Unless you "touch" a page nothing ...
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HaProxy suddenly crashing on new Ubuntu Images (same config works elsewhere)
I have been using HAProxy for about two years with the same working configuration. I've installed HaProxy multiple times over the last week on Ubuntu 14.04, 15.10 and I am getting out of Memory ...
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How to get the Linux OOM killer to not kill my process?
How do I get the Linux OOM killer to not kill my processes when physical memory is low but there is plenty of swap space?
I have disabled OOM killing and overcommit with sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=2....
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OOM score adjustements
On Ubuntu 12.04/Java 1.7
I have been reading/searching about OOM killer and generally understood what "proc" man page says especially oom_adj part. It all started because my important "MQ listeners" ...
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Rsync triggered Linux OOM killer on a single 50 GB file
I have a single 50 GB file on server_A, and I'm copying it to server_B. I run
server_A$ rsync --partial --progress --inplace --append-verify 50GB_file root@server_B:50GB_file
Server_B has 32 GB ...
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OOM Killer when tcpdump is run in system with low memory
I am working on an embedded system with limited memory. Here is the dump from my vmstat:
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
r b swpd free buff ...
