kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process

[Roberto.Quagliozzi at edftrading.com]

Hi,

I recently had a problem with logwatch munching resources. Turned out the
logs were too big, and possibly slightly corrupt. I renamed messages,
created a new file and all was OK...

Rob



Rob Quagliozzi
Enterprise Systems Architect
EDF Trading
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redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 19/06/2007 13:36:01:

> Hi,
>
> One of the servers in our cluster dies randomly,
> sometimes after few hours and sometimes after 2-3 days
> and has following line in "/var/log/messages":
>
> kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 7105
> (00-logwatch)
>
> Application LOG file:
> --- mpimon --- Aborting run after sumonitor-5
> terminated abnormally ---
>
> The process running on these servers use upto 2GB RAM.
> Total RAM on the servers is 4GB and swap of 6GB. OS is
> RHEL4 Update4.
>
> Please advice on any fixes for this problem. The
> process we are trying to run has to be restarted each
> time this error occurs.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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