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and DevelopmentX Window System Print Subscribe to Linux Subscribe to Newsletters When Linux Runs Out of Memory by Mulyadi Santosa 11/30/2006 Perhaps you rarely face it, but once you do, you surely know what's wrong: lack of free memory, or Out of linux out of memory killer Memory (OOM). The results are typical: you can no longer allocate more linux out of memory log memory and the kernel kills a task (usually the current running one). Heavy swapping usually accompanies this situation, kernel out of memory killed process linux so both screen and disk activity reflect this. At the bottom of this problem lie other questions: how much memory do you want to allocate? How much does the
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operating system (OS) allocate for you? The basic reason of OOM is simple: you've asked for more than the available virtual memory space. I say "virtual" because RAM isn't the only place counted as free memory; any swap areas apply. Exploring OOM To begin exploring OOM, first type and run this code snippet that allocates huge blocks of memory: #include oom killer total_vm
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answer site for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html answers are voted up and rise to the top Debug out-of-memory with /var/log/messages up vote 12 down vote favorite 7 The following report is thrown in my messages log: kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 9163 (mysqld) score 511 or sacrifice child kernel: Killed process 9163, UID 27, (mysqld) total-vm:2457368kB, anon-rss:816780kB, file-rss:4kB Doesn't matter if this problem is for httpd, mysqld or postfix but I am curious how can I continue http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128642/debug-out-of-memory-with-var-log-messages debugging the problem. How can I get more info about why the PID 9163 is killed and I am not sure if linux keeps history for the terminated PIDs somewhere. If this occur in your message log file how you will troubleshoot this issue step by step? # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1655 934 721 0 10 52 -/+ buffers/cache: 871 784 Swap: 109 6 103` linux logs memory out-of-memory share|improve this question edited May 9 '14 at 23:52 Gilles 373k696801129 asked May 9 '14 at 9:54 bedel7 1011110 what all messages about the problem show up in dmesg ? –Stark07 May 9 '14 at 9:57 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 21 down vote accepted The kernel will have logged a bunch of stuff before this happened, but most of it will probably not be in /var/log/messages, depending on how your (r)syslogd is configured. Try: grep oom /var/log/* grep total_vm /var/log/* The former should show up a bunch of times and the latter in only one or two places. That is the file you want to look at. Find the original "Out of memory" line in one of the files that also contains total_vm. Thirty second to a min
Support Root Causes How Plumbr works Blog Support Root Causes Blog categories To blog Previous post | Next post Out of memory: Kill process or sacrifice child June 5, 2014 by Jaan Angerpikk Filed under: Memory Leaks It is 6 AM. I am https://plumbr.eu/blog/memory-leaks/out-of-memory-kill-process-or-sacrifice-child awake summarizing the sequence of events leading to my way-too-early wake up call. As those http://serverfault.com/questions/216870/what-can-cause-kernel-out-of-memory-error stories start, my phone alarm went off. Sleepy and grumpy me checked the phone to see whether I was really crazy enough to set the wake-up alarm at 5AM. No, it was our monitoring system indicating that one of Plumbr services went down. As a seasoned veteran in the domain, I made the first correct step towards solution by turning on out of the espresso machine. With a cup of coffee I was equipped to tackle the problems. First suspect, application itself seemed to have behave completely normal before the crash. No errors, no warning signs, no trace of any suspects in the application logs. The monitoring we have in place had noticed the death of the process and had already restarted the crashed service. But as I already had caffeine in my bloodstream, I started to gather more evidence. out of memory 30 minutes later I found myself staring at the following in the /var/log/kern.log : Jun 4 07:41:59 plumbr kernel: [70667120.897649] Out of memory: Kill process 29957 (java) score 366 or sacrifice child Jun 4 07:41:59 plumbr kernel: [70667120.897701] Killed process 29957 (java) total-vm:2532680kB, anon-rss:1416508kB, file-rss:0kB Apparently we became victims of the Linux kernel internals. As you all know, Linux is built with a bunch of unholy creatures ( called ‘daemons’). Those daemons are shepherded by several kernel jobs, one of which seems to be especially sinister entity. Apparently all modern Linux kernels have a built-in mechanism called “Out Of Memory killer” which can annihilate your processes under extremely low memory conditions. When such a condition is detected, the killer is activated and picks a process to kill. The target is picked using a set of heuristics scoring all processes and selecting the one with the worst score to kill. Understanding the “Out Of Memory killer” By default, Linux kernels allow processes to request more memory than currently available in the system. This makes all the sense in the world, considering that most of the processes never actually use all of the memory they allocate. The easiest comparison to this approach would be with the cable operators. They sell all the consumers a 100Mbit download promise, far exceeding the actual bandwidth present in their network. The bet
Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top What can cause kernel out_of_memory error? up vote 3 down vote favorite I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 and I'm experiencing intermittent out_of_memory errors coming from the kernel. The server stops responding to all but pings, and I have to reboot the server. # uname -a Linux xxx 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 21:31:37 EST 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux This seems to be the important bit from /var/log/messages Dec 28 20:16:25 slarti kernel: Call Trace: Dec 28 20:16:25 slarti kernel: [