OOM killer is invoked when openscap scanner is started.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • While trying to examine a system with oscap, the process is killed due to OOM.
  • OOM messags seen in logs while running openscap.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • openscap package.

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