Out of Memory issue

[Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com]

I currently have a problem with our Redhat Machines running out of memory
and automatically killing the main process that is running on the machine
at the time. Below is my kernel version and the text from the messages
file. I have checked the top command and the machine seems to have loads of
the 2 gig memory left. Could someone please let me know how to resolve this
issue.


Kernel - 2.4.21-20.ELsmp

Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: Mem-info:
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: Zone:DMA freepages:  2908 min:     0 low:     0
high:     0
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: Zone:Normal freepages:  1275 min:  1278 low:  4543
high:  6303
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: Zone:HighMem freepages:   249 min:   255 low:  4606
high:  6909
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: Free pages:        4432 (   249 HighMem)
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: ( Active: 503137/73, inactive_laundry: 0,
inactive_clean: 0, free: 4432 )
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel:   aa:0 ac:0 id:0 il:0 ic:0 fr:2908
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel:   aa:208678 ac:2066 id:73 il:0 ic:0 fr:1275
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel:   aa:289520 ac:2873 id:0 il:0 ic:0 fr:249
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 0*4kB 4*8kB 5*16kB 2*32kB 3*64kB 0*128kB 2*256kB
1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 2*4096kB = 11632kB)
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 1*4kB 1*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB
1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 5100kB)
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 1*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB
1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 996kB)
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 2061 pages of slabcache
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 166 pages of kernel stacks
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 0 lowmem pagetables, 1634 highmem pagetables
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: Free swap:            0kB
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 524160 pages of RAM
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 294768 pages of HIGHMEM
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 10422 reserved pages
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 10491 pages shared
Jan 17 09:21:13 kernel: 0 pages swap cached
Jan 17 09:21:13  kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 22262
(mpp970_s_5434a_).

Regards

Andrew Bridgeman

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