just had a server hang on me...seems pretty clearly that some process stole all the RAM (clamd?) Jul 30 16:26:04 srv1 kernel: auditd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=-17 Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<c0457d36>] out_of_memory+0x72/0x1a4 Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<c0459161>] __alloc_pages+0x201/0x282 Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<c045a3bf>] __do_page_cache_readahead +0xc4/0x1c6 Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<c0438ecf>] wake_futex+0x3a/0x44 Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<c043a2a9>] do_futex+0x738/0xb15 Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<f88d0b96>] dm_any_congested+0x2f/0x35 [dm_mod] Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<c04572d8>] filemap_nopage+0x151/0x315 Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<c045fda3>] __handle_mm_fault+0x172/0x87b Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<c0606c2b>] do_page_fault+0x20a/0x4b8 Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<c0606a21>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4b8 Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: [<c0405a71>] error_code+0x39/0x40 Jul 30 16:26:08 srv1 kernel: ======================= snip... Jul 30 16:26:21 srv1 kernel: Free pages: 12044kB (124kB HighMem) Jul 30 16:26:21 srv1 kernel: Active:119791 inactive:120544 dirty:0 writeback:12 unstable:0 free:3011 slab:7550 mapped-file:1746 mapped-anon:215165 pagetabl es:3364 Jul 30 16:26:32 srv1 kernel: DMA free:4096kB min:68kB low:84kB high:100kB active:3948kB inactive:3608kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:17135 all_unreclaimab le? yes Jul 30 16:26:32 srv1 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 880 1007 Jul 30 16:26:33 srv1 kernel: DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Jul 30 16:26:33 srv1 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 880 1007 Jul 30 16:26:33 srv1 kernel: Normal free:7824kB min:3756kB low:4692kB high:5632kB active:413832kB inactive:416972kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:2000672 all_unreclaimable? yes Jul 30 16:26:33 srv1 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 1023 Jul 30 16:26:33 srv1 kernel: HighMem free:124kB min:128kB low:264kB high:400kB active:61512kB inactive:61412kB present:130944kB pages_scanned:271904 all_un reclaimable? yes Jul 30 16:26:33 srv1 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Jul 30 16:26:33 srv1 kernel: DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 24*16kB 4*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 2*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4096kB Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: DMA32: empty Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: Normal: 44*4kB 4*8kB 234*16kB 7*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 7824kB Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: HighMem: 3*4kB 0*8kB 3*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 124kB Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: Swap cache: add 61987202, delete 61986895, find 48568667/56549915, race 0+19406 Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: Free swap = 0kB Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: Total swap = 2031608kB Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: Free swap: 0kB Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: 262112 pages of RAM Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: 32736 pages of HIGHMEM Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: 3327 reserved pages Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: 8186 pages shared Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: 313 pages swap cached Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: 0 pages dirty Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: 12 pages writeback Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: 1746 pages mapped Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: 7550 pages slab Jul 30 16:26:34 srv1 kernel: 3364 pages pagetables how does one determine who the culprit was? Craig _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos