Hi,
We have had a strange crash in the SER server we use. The load was not that big - around 10 users being served at that time. All of a sudden, the server stops responding and reports the following error in /var/log/messages:
Feb 4 14:41:35 sip kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 3780 (ser). Feb 4 14:54:52 sip kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 3857 (ser). Feb 4 14:58:08 sip last message repeated 10 times Feb 4 15:02:17 sip kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 3860 (ser). Feb 4 15:13:32 sip last message repeated 66 times
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Has someone else met this before?
Jaime
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On Feb 05, 2003 at 12:03, jaime.gill@orange.co.uk jaime.gill@orange.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
We have had a strange crash in the SER server we use. The load was not that big
- around 10 users being served at that time. All of a sudden, the server stops
responding and reports the following error in /var/log/messages:
Feb 4 14:41:35 sip kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 3780 (ser). Feb 4 14:54:52 sip kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 3857 (ser). Feb 4 14:58:08 sip last message repeated 10 times Feb 4 15:02:17 sip kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 3860 (ser). Feb 4 15:13:32 sip last message repeated 66 times
It seems like the kernel OOM killer picks up ser as its victim. However ser never use more memory then ~ 1Mb + the size given to -m (or 32MB if -m is not used). So either you use too much shared memory (-m size is to big) or there is some other application eating a lot of memory and the kernel OOM picks ser for some obscure reason.
Andrei