Questions tagged [oom]

Linux Out-of-memory Killer

The OOM Killer is the Linux kernel's built in mechanism for protecting a machine from using up all memory.

107 questions
0
votes
1 answer

Kill the most memory-hungry process when memory gets low

Sometimes my Linux desktop, laptop, or server run out of RAM because the experimental software I work with occasionally tries to use more RAM than I have available. When this happens, the system and console hangs for several minutes while Linux…
Vortico
  • 251
  • 1
  • 3
  • 8
0
votes
0 answers

Out of memory in Linux server killing my tomcat server

From last night I am getting below unexpected behaviour. Out of memory: Kill process 1740 (java) score 128 or sacrifice child Apr 8 19:14:20 ubuntu-s-4vcpu-8gb-sgp1-01 kernel: [17644.393549] Out of memory: Kill process 1740 (java) score 128 or…
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8