Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel panic due to out of memory even though lots of physical memory was available.

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Issue

  • The machine panics due to being Out of Memory even though physical memory is still available to be used

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Kernel-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 or older
  • OOM

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