System crashed with lack of free memory

Solution Verified - Updated -

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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