Interpreting Out of memory (OOM) killer output in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
What does the output mean during an OOM Killer?
Mar 6 13:21:48 process1 kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 10665 (java) score 858 or sacrifice child
Mar 6 13:21:48 process1 kernel: Killed process 10665 (java) total-vm:31061164kB, anon-rss:28248312kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 7.x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 7.x
- OpenJDK 8
- OpenJDK 11
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