Out of memory problems - some interesting log file entries

[brian at univexsystems.com (Brian Parish)]

On Friday 17 June 2005 07:22, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:07 +1000, Brian Parish wrote:
> > This is a newly installed server running CentOS 4 with all current
> > updates. It's been cruising nicely since installation a week ago until
> > this morning. Then everyting started timing out and the attached messages
> > appeared in the log (this is a short and sanitized extract).  Load went
> > sky high.
> >
> > Had to reboot to restore service and all looks happy again now, but if
> > anyone can provide some input on these messages...
> >
> > TIA
> > Brian
>
> There are known (upstream :) issues with memory leaks on the 2.6.9-5.0.3
> and the 2.6.9-5.0.5 kernels.  Those are supposed to be fixed on the
> 2.6.9-11 kernel (which you should have if you are updating your kernel).

This could be it - it was still running 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL - now updating.  Lazy 
sysadmin!

thanks
Brian