Why is /var/log/messages being flooded with, "Cannot allocate memory" errors?

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Issue

  • Why is /var/log/messages is being flooded with, "Cannot allocate memory" errors?
Jul  1 11:21:42 testserver rrdcached[17119]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/HDPHBaseMaster/testserver1.test.net/rest.REST.requests.rrd) failed with status -1. (mmaping file '/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/HDPHBaseMaster/testserver1.test.net/rest.REST.requests.rrd': Cannot allocate memory)
Jul  1 11:21:42 testserver rrdcached[17119]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/HDPHBaseMaster/testserver1.test.net/rest.REST.failedPut.rrd) failed with status -1. (mmaping file '/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/HDPHBaseMaster/testserver1.test.net/rest.REST.failedPut.rrd': Cannot allocate memory)
Jul  1 11:21:42 testserver rrdcached[17119]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/HDPHBaseMaster/testserver1.test.net/rest.REST.successfulGet.rrd) failed with status -1. (mmaping file '/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/HDPHBaseMaster/testserver1.test.net/rest.REST.successfulGet.rrd': Cannot allocate memory)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • rrdtool-1.4.5-1.el6.x86_64

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