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Oracle Linux: Commands failed with "fork: Cannot allocate memory" (Doc ID 1684313.1)

Last updated on MARCH 01, 2023

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.0 to Oracle Linux 8.7 [Release OL6 to OL8U7]
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software - Version 2.0.6.2.3 to 2.0.6.2.3
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

User is seeing these messages when executing simple commands like ls, df, id, etc:

 

Changes

 

Cause

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