Why does RHEL log the messages "kernel: VM: killing process oracle"?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • In our system logs, we notice the following error message:
kernel: VM: killing process oracle

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • NUMA system
  • Huge-pages enabled

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