[CentOS] Had to POWER OFF CentOS 5.1!

Wed Jan 23 19:43:08 UTC 2008
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 at 1:38pm, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote

> I was running a simple script and the system became unresponsive.  I
> went to the console and couldn't get it to respond, so I had to POWER
> OFF!   Ugh!
>
> (Note: this script, get-backup, ran fine on a CentOS 4.5 system)
>
> Looking through /var/log/messages, I see:
>
> Jan 23 12:52:14 DoyleBrunson kernel: ps invoked oom-killer:
*snip*
> Ideas as to a methodology to diagnose the problem?

Figure out what part of your script is taking up so much memory.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF