Kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5524 (httpd)

[Iulian Musat]

This doesn't mean that httpd is the processes with the problem. For as 
far as I know, when running out of memory the kernel will decide what 
processes to kill based on some criteria, like the size of the process, 
time to CPU, time from start etc.

 From the previous messages I guess there is nothing wrong with httpd. 
I'll try looking for something else that is either eating a lot of 
memory or is spawning a lot of children.

-iulian

Jay Berryman wrote:
> I have been seeing the following error messages in /var/log/messages
> every couple of days. 
> 
> kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5524 (httpd)
> 
>  These type of messages continue on through the log until the server
> crashes.  I believe it is a memory leak in apache, but I have no idea
> what is causing it.  I am currently running RedHat 9.0 on kernel
> 2.4.20-8smp with apache version 2.0.40.   The server is completly up to
> date with the latest redhat bugfixes and errata.  Any help on this issue
> would be greatly apreciated.  Thanks.
>