oom-killer: If you see this you should reboot

1 · Benjamin Cane · July 7, 2011, 3:21 a.m.
If you have ever run a system with very little memory such as a small virtual server cough or a server with a java application cough than you might have seen this type of error every now and then. Jul 611:39:55 slize kernel: [1262223.326537] apache2 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x200da, order=0, oom_adj=0 What is oom-killer? oom-killer is a process that the kernel will call when a system is over committed on memory....