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sxe

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Registered: 2009-06-04

Posts: 103

[solved] oom-killer triggers with free ram left

Hi,

when my ram usage reaches ~4700MB (7987MB total) my system gets horrible slow and freezes until the oom-killer triggers and kills some applications (or one specific application).

FYI: I have no swap partition.

htop and "free -m" shows me that there is > 3GB free Ram left.

Can somebody explain to me what happens on my system?

I could understand it if there were no free Ram left but thats not the case. Maybe i don't understand the numbers but i would like to know what happens.

Here is the latest oom-killer log: http://wklej.org/id/966822

Thx in advance,

Greetings,
Andy

Last edited by sxe (2013-02-26 19:41:40)

sxe

Member

Registered: 2009-06-04

Posts: 103

Re: [solved] oom-killer triggers with free ram left

I found the solution myselfe reading this:
http://serverfault.com/questions/141988 … n-teardown

Especially the answers to the first comment.

TLDR: The behavior is perfectly normal.