The system experiences OOM while there is unaccounted memory.
Issue
- The system indicates a scarcity of available free memory, despite the minimal application-side usage.
crash> kmem -i
PAGES TOTAL PERCENTAGE
TOTAL MEM 131923083 503.2 GB ----
FREE 164285 641.7 MB 0% of TOTAL MEM
USED 131758798 502.6 GB 99% of TOTAL MEM
BUFFERS 2 8 KB 0% of TOTAL MEM
CACHED 5237 20.5 MB 0% of TOTAL MEM
SLAB 239397 935.1 MB 0% of TOTAL MEM
TOTAL HUGE 71752192 273.7 GB ----
HUGE FREE 71752192 273.7 GB 100% of TOTAL HUGE
TOTAL SWAP 8388607 32 GB ----
SWAP USED 182930 714.6 MB 2% of TOTAL SWAP
SWAP FREE 8205677 31.3 GB 97% of TOTAL SWAP
COMMIT LIMIT 38474052 146.8 GB ----
COMMITTED 1062025 4.1 GB 2% of TOTAL LIMIT
crash> meminfo
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[ RSS usage ] [ Process name ]
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21.7 MiB ( 22244.00 KiB) multipathd
19.1 MiB ( 19576.00 KiB) ir_agent
11.3 MiB ( 11540.00 KiB) crond
6.2 MiB ( 6328.00 KiB) sshd
6.0 MiB ( 6100.00 KiB) rapid7_endpoint
5.8 MiB ( 5956.00 KiB) arcproxy
5.5 MiB ( 5588.00 KiB) rapid7_agent_co
4.9 MiB ( 5060.00 KiB) himds
4.8 MiB ( 4952.00 KiB) gc_linux_servic
4.3 MiB ( 4376.00 KiB) linux_agent_exe
<...>
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Total memory usage from user-space = 176.1 MiB
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10
- 4.18.0-553.54.1.el8_10.x86_64
- bnx2x is used for networking
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