[CentOS] Out of memory problems - some interesting log file entries

[Johnny Hughes]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:07 +1000, Brian Parish wrote:
> This is a newly installed server running CentOS 4 with all current updates.  
> It's been cruising nicely since installation a week ago until this morning.  
> Then everyting started timing out and the attached messages appeared in the 
> log (this is a short and sanitized extract).  Load went sky high.
> 
> Had to reboot to restore service and all looks happy again now, but if anyone 
> can provide some input on these messages...
> 
> TIA
> Brian

There are known (upstream :) issues with memory leaks on the 2.6.9-5.0.3
and the 2.6.9-5.0.5 kernels.  Those are supposed to be fixed on the
2.6.9-11 kernel (which you should have if you are updating your kernel).
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