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

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 07:27 -0600, Eric Sisler wrote:

> In my opinion, a lightly-loaded dual quad-core / 16Gb host with plenty
> of resources should *not* be experiencing this problem.  Our older
> VMware hosts running RHEL 3 are much more reliable, I'm considering
> rolling back to RHEL 3.  See my earlier post for details.

Eric,

As someone else pointed out, you need to 'grep LowFree /proc/meminfo'.
When Low Memory is exhausted, OOM killer will start killing things even
if there is 12GB of High Memory free.  16GB is not 16GB.  :)  This is
why a previous post suggested using the highmem kernel -- it is able to
provide more low memory.  I don't know how much low memory vs. high
memory each VM uses, but it's probably something to look at.

/Brian/
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