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"Out of Memory: Killed process " errors on server running Oracle

"Out of Memory: Killed process " errors on server running Oracle

2007-07-13       - By Brian Long

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On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 14:17 -0700, Gene wrote:
> Hola,
>
>   Every 5-6 days I'm getting "Out of Memory: Killed process" messages
> on a Redhat AS 3 server running Oracle 9.20.  These errors will occur
> for a couple hours and will eventually lead to Oracle shutting down.
> The load on the server did increase recently, but there's still 1.8GB
> memory free on the system during these errors.
>
>   The box is running the smp kernel.  Should I do something like
> increase the stack size or use the hugemem kernel?
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux prddb02 2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Jun 29 18:04:47 EDT 2004
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I'm fairly certain the above kernel (2.4.21-15 and it's dot releases)
were famous for OOM killer getting invoked before memory was really
full.  If you cannot go to the next full update, at least try a newer
supported kernel (like from U8 or U9).

/Brian/

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