Re: OOM killer invoked on 2.6.24.4

["Marco Barbero" <marco.barbero@gmail.com>]

2008/6/14 Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Marco Barbero <marco.barbero@gmail.com> wrote:
>> samba/slapd/heartbeat/drbd/mon
> ...
>> Jun 14 01:00:17 pippo kernel: Out of memory: kill process 6873 (slapd)
>> score 5003 or a child
>> Jun 14 01:00:17 pippo kernel: Killed process 6873 (slapd)
>>
>> Anyone can help me in understanding what went wrong? And if I need to
>> upgrade to last kernel version?
>
> One or more processes on your system used too much memory. Dumping the
> output of the following command periodically (e.g. every 10 minutes)
> to a file will tell you which process is using too much memory:

> { ps aux | head -n 1; ps aux | sort -n +4 | tail -n 10; }


I'll do it.  Have to say that this box had an uptime of 1 month and
never show issues. Also oom was invoked in the night when load is
minimum.
Could be related to slab and the quicklist leak?