System crashed with out_of_memory messages on RHEL5.4

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System crashed with following messages
        Process perl (pid: 20207, threadinfo ffff8102f90e0000, task ffff810337645100)
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        Call Trace:
         [<ffffffff800c8fab>] shrink_active_list+0x21e/0x4c4
         [<ffffffff80013026>] shrink_zone+0xda/0x15d
         [<ffffffff800ca371>] try_to_free_pages+0x18b/0x2d7
         [<ffffffff8002e2f2>] __wake_up+0x38/0x4f
         [<ffffffff8000f40d>] __alloc_pages+0x1cb/0x2ce
         [<ffffffff883cd4f0>] :bonding:bond_dev_queue_xmit+0x18b/0x1aa
         [<ffffffff80012e03>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x96/0x179
         [<ffffffff80013765>] filemap_nopage+0x14c/0x360
         [<ffffffff8000898c>] __handle_mm_fault+0x1fa/0xf99
         [<ffffffff8006af7d>] __switch_to+0xfe/0x22f
         [<ffffffff80066b25>] do_page_fault+0x4cb/0x830
         [<ffffffff8003da91>] lock_timer_base+0x1b/0x3c
         [<ffffffff8004b265>] try_to_del_timer_sync+0x51/0x5a
         [<ffffffff80097667>] recalc_sigpending+0xe/0x25
         [<ffffffff8005dde9>] error_exit+0x0/0x84
        <process> invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0

        Call Trace:
         [<ffffffff800c5b2c>] out_of_memory+0x8e/0x2f3
         [<ffffffff8002e2f2>] __wake_up+0x38/0x4f
         [<ffffffff8000f487>] __alloc_pages+0x245/0x2ce
         [<ffffffff80012e03>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x96/0x179
         [<ffffffff80013765>] filemap_nopage+0x14c/0x360
         [<ffffffff8000898c>] __handle_mm_fault+0x1fa/0xf99
         [<ffffffff8002e2f2>] __wake_up+0x38/0x4f
         [<ffffffff80066b25>] do_page_fault+0x4cb/0x830
         [<ffffffff8005dde9>] error_exit+0x0/0x84

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • kernel-2.6.18-164

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