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

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

2007-07-22       - By wolf2k5

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On 7/17/07, Eric Sisler <esisler@(protected)> wrote:
> "...This problem results from a change in the way the Linux version 2.6
> kernel's OOM process killer works. In the version 2.4 kernel, the OOM
> process killer killed the process that requested more memory than could
> be provided. In version 2.6, this behavior changed so that the OOM
> process killer kills the largest active process, regardless of the
> process whose request exceeded available memory."

We're seeing the same issue on a RHEL4 host running VMware Server with
several VMs.

Do you have the link to the VMware KB? What do they suggest to do?

Thanks.

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