Lots of OOM messages after many 'Pid xxxx(xxx) over core_pipe_limit'

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • System was generating lots of OOM messages and killed process 'abrt-action-gen'.
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[2080495.629235] [18234]     0 18234      311        1       5        0             0 sh
[2080495.629466] Out of memory: Kill process 40831 (abrt-action-gen) score 922 or sacrifice child
[2080495.629703] Killed process 40831 (abrt-action-gen), UID 0, total-vm:412211840kB, anon-rss:364309828kB, file-rss:1496kB, shmem-rss:0kB
[2091512.435707] MFE_AAC_ERROR   : Failed to get the Process Memory Info for process agentd932, pid 32966,parent pid =32969
[2094849.080160] MFE_AAC_ERROR   : Failed to get the Process Memory Info for process agentd932, pid 47221,parent pid =47223
[2095733.711581] MFE_AAC_ERROR   : Failed to get the Process Memory Info for process shell, pid 19248,parent pid =19249
[2100111.351041] MFE_AAC_ERROR   : Failed to get the Process Memory Info for process agentd932, pid 25814,parent pid =25816
[2104082.001825] srlogind[29646]: segfault at 8b2a12c ip 00000000f55fbd69 sp 00000000fff64090 error 6 in libc-2.17.so[f5581000+1c4000]
[2105971.782663] Process accounting resumed
[2137011.343450] Pid 16640(hcq) over core_pipe_limit
[2137011.343586] Skipping core dump
[2137162.820913] Pid 47538(hcq) over core_pipe_limit
[2137162.821047] Skipping core dump
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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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