OracleVM: OVM Server Suffers Out-Of-Memory (OOM) Crash (Doc ID 2521128.1)

Last updated on APRIL 16, 2021

Applies to:

Symptoms

OVM 3.4.5 server crashed all VM´s and Shows "python invoked oom-killer" entries in the /var/log/messages file. 

Mar 15 23:14:18 xxx kernel: [8360080.925569] Out of memory: Kill process 11780 (xend) score 2 or sacrifice child
Mar 15 23:16:45 xxx kernel: [8360227.692178] Out of memory: Kill process 11780 (xend) score 2 or sacrifice child
Mar 15 23:17:03 xxx kernel: [8360246.269984] Out of memory: Kill process 11780 (xend) score 2 or sacrifice child
Mar 15 23:17:08 xxx kernel: [8360251.469145] Out of memory: Kill process 11780 (xend) score 2 or sacrifice child
Mar 15 23:17:30 xxx kernel: [8360273.313528] Out of memory: Kill process 11780 (xend) score 2 or sacrifice child
Mar 15 23:17:43 xxx kernel: [8360285.214056] Out of memory: Kill process 11780 (xend) score 2 or sacrifice child
Mar 15 23:18:07 xxx kernel: [8360310.183434] Out of memory: Kill process 11780 (xend) score 2 or sacrifice child
Mar 15 23:18:20 xxx kernel: [8360322.543826] Out of memory: Kill process 13987 (vbox-img) score 0 or sacrifice child
Mar 16 01:17:38 xxx kernel: [8367480.827216] Out of memory: Kill process 22352 (xend) score 2 or sacrifice child
Mar 16 01:20:00 xxx kernel: [8367622.578983] Out of memory: Kill process 22352 (xend) score 2 or sacrifice child

Changes

Customer upgraded to 3.4.5; issue presented the same day.

Cause

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