[CentOS] x86_64 server OOM problems after update to 5.3

Rick Barnes wrote:

> How do I determine what process is/was chewing up the memory on this
> server? What should I be looking for to narrow this down?

Setup a script to monitor memory usage and alert you when swap
usage starts getting high. Or setup a monitor that just runs ps auxw
or something and sends output to a file so the next time it happens
you know how much memory everything was using at the time.

nate