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= Kill process score 10 or sacrifice child = | |||
Linux is built with a bunch of ‘daemons’. Those daemons are shepherded by several kernel jobs. Apparently all modern Linux kernels have a built-in mechanism called “Out Of Memory killer” which can annihilate your processes under extremely low memory conditions. When such a condition is detected, the killer is activated and picks a process to kill. The target is picked using a set of heuristics scoring all processes and selecting the one with the worst score to kill. | |||
Source: https://plumbr.eu/blog/memory-leaks/out-of-memory-kill-process-or-sacrifice-child | |||
More Info: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Performance_Tuning_Guide/s-memory-captun.html | |||
Solution: find a process which depletes your RAM and fixed it. Or add more RAM. | |||
Revision as of 07:55, 16 May 2016
Kill process score 10 or sacrifice child
Linux is built with a bunch of ‘daemons’. Those daemons are shepherded by several kernel jobs. Apparently all modern Linux kernels have a built-in mechanism called “Out Of Memory killer” which can annihilate your processes under extremely low memory conditions. When such a condition is detected, the killer is activated and picks a process to kill. The target is picked using a set of heuristics scoring all processes and selecting the one with the worst score to kill.
Source: https://plumbr.eu/blog/memory-leaks/out-of-memory-kill-process-or-sacrifice-child More Info: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Performance_Tuning_Guide/s-memory-captun.html
Solution: find a process which depletes your RAM and fixed it. Or add more RAM.
