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Oracle Linux: Process 'systemd' having Unusual Amount of Memory Consumption (Doc ID 2671674.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 26, 2021

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.2 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [3.8.13] and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

The systemd process is taking unusual amount of memory consumption  (35%) in the system:

%Cpu(s): 0.9 us, 1.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.6 id, 0.3 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 32672376 total, 2963476 free, 16040928 used, 13667972 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 6977388 free, 1411216 used. 6463471 avail Mem

  PID   USER   PR   NI    VIRT      RES       SHR   S    %CPU    %MEM     TIME+     COMMAND
  1     root    20    0  11.143g    0.011t   1724   S    0.0     35.2   1161:18      systemd
 17402  oracle  -2    0  12.865g    3.899g  3.879g  S    0.0      2.5     25:45.68     ora_lms0_logdb1
 17406  oracle - 2    0  12.865g    3.372g  3.352g  S    1.2     10.8    24:54.10     ora_lms1_logdb1
 


Cause

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