Re: Out of Memory: Killed process pine, find, kza ...

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On Sunday, 30 December 2001, at 15:57:38 +0100,
Michael De Nil wrote:

> I have a strange problem with kernel 2.4.14 & 2.4.17 (the two I tried on)
> When I run a simple command like 'find /var -name sendmail* -print' (this
> one) or when running pine, kza, etc. Iget the error: 'Out of Memory:
> Killed process 2032 (find)'
> I did a vmstat 2 while running 'find /var -name sendmail* -print'
> Here is what I recieved after a while:
> 
> cs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
> r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
> 6  0  2 205720   1408   1220   5176   0 1664    12  1682  332    67   6  93   1
> [...]
> 1  0  0 240964   1328   1224   5000   0 924    10   924  231    71   8  92   0
> Out of Memory: Killed process 2032 (find).
> 
> 
It doesn't seem to be the problem some people is complaining about
lately. These people get OOM but their systems still have tons of
"available" memory in buffers and/or caches. This is not your case, and
it seems OOM kills a process just in time to avoid having no memory
available for the system to continue working.

I would run "top" and see what processes are eating up your memory,
because 128 MB RAM + 256 MB swap is more than enough for a "normal"
system. Maybe is a program that went crazy, and keeps on allocating all
your memory, leaving nothing for the rest. I have seen both X and
netscape processes behaving this way.

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