Questions tagged [out-of-memory]
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Implement a recovery virtual console for a hanged system
This might be a duplicate of "reserve memory for a set of processes", but I think my question is a little broader. I have a system that likes to hang a lot. I tend to use a lot of browser ...
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How to solve Out of memory on AKS?
I am running CircleCI jobs and got an 137 error. I checked k logs pod/dzapi-66d6b9cb-l995w -n simm Error from server (BadRequest): container "dzapi-solution" in pod "dzapi-solution-...
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Weird behavior: Does libasan consume system memory constantly in Linux?
I am working on an embedded Linux system (kernel-5.10), and the cross GCC only supports -fsanitize=address for address sanitizer. Then I built a testing program with -fsanitize=address and -lasan. ...
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How to setup memory cgroup with OOM killer enabled?
I did the following: mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test echo 32212254720 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/memory.limit_in_bytes cgexec -g memory:test … But when the cgroup's memory is almost fully used, ...
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Solaris 10 g++ virtual memory exhausted
I am trying to use the cm3-unix64le-d5.11.1-20210610 from the Modula 3 github. i am running the .cpp file and I get a virtual memory exhausted: Not enough space error. I have 16GB of RAM and I'm ...
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How to use vm.overcommit_memory=1 without getting system hung?
I am using vm.overcommit_memory=1 on my linux system which has been helpful to allow starting multiple applications which otherwise wouldn't even start with default value of 0, however, sometimes my ...
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How to make the OOM killer target processes with high nice values?
I would like to know how to configure the OOM killer to first kill processes that have a high nice value. My usecase for this is that I have some background processes where I don't mind them getting ...
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How to use systemd-run to isolate the rest of the system from a rogue program triggering the oom killer
I'm wanting to use cgroups and systemd-run to insulate the rest of my system from rogue programs that wake the OOM killer. In particular, clangd is hogging all my memory and then some, and then ...
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Why oom_score of a cat command in terminal is less than my window manager?
For experimenting, I was seeing oom_score of some of processes in my computer. The oom_score of a cat command is 666 but oom_scoreof my window manager (which is i3) is 667. If I understood correctly, ...
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grep command fails with out-of-memory error
I encountered an OOM issue (this happens every-time I execute it) on running grep -Fxvf file1 file2 file1 size: ~200MB file2 size: ~300MB number of records in each file: ~300K avg records length: ~1K ...
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Is there a log for processes that request too much GPU memory on Linux for NVidia GPUs?
I would like to find a history for Nvidia GPUs where I can see when a process given by PID has requested GPU memory and it failed because of lack of available GPU memory. System would be Rocky 9 and ...
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Using overcommit_memory = 2 crashes a Postgres container
I have a device that has Debian 11 installed, on which Docker is running. On boot, it starts the Docker Daemon and the nine containers. Eight of them are executing a C# program and the last one is a ...
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Why is mariadb.service not restarted by systemd after OOM kill
The mysql.service got killed by the OOM killer. While investigating the root cause I wanted to change the unit configuration to restart if killed. I was surprised to find Restart=on-abort already in ...
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How to analyse cause of memory usage not shown by htop
How can I best debug the following issue from here on? I have a python application running in a podman container which has plenty disk I/O due to a numpy memmap of two huge files, one input file ...
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Why is Linux not using RAM but only Swap?
How can such an output of free -m be explained? total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 32036 1012 225 3 8400 ...
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