Server crashed due to out-of-memory, need root cause to identify the culprit process.

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Issue

  • Server crashed due to out-of-memory (OOM), need root cause to identify the culprit process.
  • Server got hung, unable to login after OOM.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • OOM

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