Page allocation failure messages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, How do I prevent them?

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Issue

  • Application is being terminated on a RHEL4 32bit VMWare server with an OOM error:

    Dec 4 11:18:59 uusnwa4n kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0
    Dec 4 11:18:59 uusnwa4n kernel: Mem-info:
    Dec 4 11:18:59 uusnwa4n kernel: DMA per-cpu:

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 32-bit architecture

Resolution

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