Why is my IBM Power server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM DB2 databases suffering oomkiller events?

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Issue

  • We have the oom process kick in and kill a process.  It looks like we ran out of swap space.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8

  • IBM Pseries P6
  • IBM DB2 Databases

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