On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:34:19 -0700 (MST) greigwise <greigwise@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, I've been unsuccessful so far on creating a standalone test. > > I have put some scripting in place to capture some additional information on > the server with the out of memory issues. I have a script which just > periodically dumps the output of free -m to a text file. > > So, the output of free -m immediately before and after the out of memory > error looks like this: > > Just before: > total used free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 14877 2978 132 3553 11766 > 7943 > Swap: 0 0 0 > > Just after: > total used free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 14877 2946 649 3548 11280 > 7982 > Swap: 0 0 0 > > If I have nearly 8 GB of memory left, why am I getting out of memory errors? Doesn't the default NUMA setup mean that it can't actually allocate all the available memory to a single NUMA zone (or whatever it's called)? Or am I talking ancient Linux history with that? -- Bill Moran
