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

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