System crashed with lack of free memory
Issue
- vmcore shows physical memory and swap was fully utilized.
crash> kmem -i
PAGES TOTAL PERCENTAGE
TOTAL MEM 3043809 11.6 GB ----
FREE 14349 56.1 MB 0% of TOTAL MEM
USED 3029460 11.6 GB 99% of TOTAL MEM
SHARED 42212 164.9 MB 1% of TOTAL MEM
BUFFERS 60 240 KB 0% of TOTAL MEM
CACHED 2768 10.8 MB 0% of TOTAL MEM
SLAB 41715 162.9 MB 1% of TOTAL MEM
TOTAL HIGH 0 0 0% of TOTAL MEM
FREE HIGH 0 0 0% of TOTAL HIGH
TOTAL LOW 3043809 11.6 GB 100% of TOTAL MEM
FREE LOW 14349 56.1 MB 0% of TOTAL LOW
TOTAL SWAP 5243212 20 GB ----
SWAP USED 5243212 20 GB 100% of TOTAL SWAP
SWAP FREE 0 0 0% of TOTAL SWAP
COMMIT LIMIT 6765116 25.8 GB ----
COMMITTED 17473622 66.7 GB 258% of TOTAL LIMIT
- Need to know what processes were consuming the memory
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