System crashes during the boot with Out of memory message

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System crashed with out-of-memory during the boot
init: rc main process (1291) killed by KILL signal
Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes... 

pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-431.5.1.e16.x86_64 #1
all Trace: 
 [<ffffffff81527513>] ? panic+0xa7/8x16f 
 [<ffffffff811229cd>] ? dump_beader+0xl0d/0x1b0
 [<ffffffff8112337f>] ? out_of_memory+0x38f/0x3c0
 [<ffffffff8112fb2c>] ? alloc_pages_nodemask+0x8ac/0x8d0
 [<ffffffff81167b8a>] ? alloc_pages_uma+0x9a/0x150 
 [<ffffffff8115b862>] ? read_swap_cache_async+0xf2/0x160 
 [<ffffffff8115c389>] ? valid_swaphandles+0x69/0x150
 [<ffffffff8115b957>] ? swapin_readabead+0x87/0xce
 [<ffffffff8114ac2d>] ? handle_pte_fault+0x6dd/0xb00 
 [<ffffffff8114b27a>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x22a10x300 
 [<ffffffff8104a8d8>] ? do_page_fault+0x13810x480 
 [<ffffffff810129de>] ? copy_user_generic+0xe/0x20 
 [<ffffffff810179ab>] ? check_for_xstate+0x3b/0x90 
 [<ffffffff81017b5f>] ? restore_i387_xstate+0xl5f/0xlc0 
 [<ffffffff8100bb8e>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x20 
 [<ffffffff8152d76e>] ? do_page_fault+0x3e/0xa0 
 [<ffffffff8152ab25>] ? page_fault+0x25/0x30 

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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