Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel panic due to out of memory even though lots of physical memory was available.
Issue
- The machine panics due to being Out of Memory even though physical memory is still available to be used
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Kernel-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 or older
- OOM
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