Why is the Logical Volume Manager utilities (LVM) triggering OOM Killer?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

LVM operations such as lvextend or lvremove triggers OOM Killer

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Logical Volume Manager
  • 2 GB RAM

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