error on /var/log/messages --> oom problem?

Fri May 6 06:23:40 UTC 2005

hmm.. i havent tried rebooting the box.. but im thinking of a long term 
solution without rebooting.. would adding addtional memory modules work? 

On Friday 06 May 2005 11:45, billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org wrote:
> This looks like you ran out of memory + swap to me.
>
> Did a reboot fix anything?
>
> Bill
>
> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:27:41AM +0800, JM wrote:
> > i got this data from our server killing almost all of our services.. can
> > someone help me here... do i need to upgrade or anything..
> >
> > im using redhat 9 with 2.4.27 SMP
> >
> > tia,
> >
> > May  5 18:10:55 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:10:55 earth kernel: VM: killing process sshd
> > May  5 18:10:55 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:10:55 earth kernel: VM: killing process modprobe
> > May  5 18:10:55 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:10:55 earth kernel: VM: killing process smsbox
> > May  5 18:11:42 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:11:42 earth kernel: VM: killing process smsbox
> > May  5 18:11:48 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:11:48 earth kernel: VM: killing process
> > iwrite_globe
> > May  5 18:11:49 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:11:49 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:11:49 earth kernel: VM: killing
> > process java
> > May  5 18:11:49 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:11:49 earth kernel: VM: killing process java
> > May  5 18:13:09 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:13:09 earth kernel: VM: killing process java
> > May  5 18:13:36 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:14:28 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:14:28 earth kernel: VM: killing
> > process croncallboykann May  5 18:14:29 earth kernel: __alloc_pages:
> > 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:14:29 earth kernel: VM:
> > killing process gsmsbox
> > May  5 18:14:29 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:14:29 earth kernel: VM: killing process modprobe
> > May  5 18:14:29 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:14:29 earth kernel: VM: killing process
> > mms_forwarder
> > May  5 18:14:29 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:14:29 earth kernel: VM: killing process java
> > May  5 18:14:30 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:15:29 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:15:29 earth kernel: VM: killing
> > process modprobe
> > May  5 18:15:32 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:15:32 earth kernel: VM: killing process smsbox
> > May  5 18:15:34 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:15:34 earth kernel: VM: killing process modprobe
> > May  5 18:15:36 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:15:36 earth kernel: VM: killing process sh
> > May  5 18:15:38 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:15:39 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:15:39 earth kernel: VM: killing
> > process sendmail
> > May  5 18:15:40 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:15:40 earth kernel: VM: killing process crond
> > May  5 18:15:40 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:15:40 earth kernel: VM: killing process
> > iwrite_globe
> > May  5 18:15:40 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:16:12 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:16:12 earth kernel: VM: killing
> > process croncallboykann May  5 18:16:12 earth kernel: __alloc_pages:
> > 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:16:16 earth last
> > message repeated 2 times
> > May  5 18:16:16 earth kernel: VM: killing process forwarder
> > May  5 18:16:17 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:16:17 earth kernel: VM: killing process smsbox
> > May  5 18:16:17 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:16:17 earth kernel: VM: killing process java
> > May  5 18:16:18 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:16:18 earth kernel: VM: killing process curl
> > May  5 18:16:19 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:17:22 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:17:22 earth kernel: kmod:
> > failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k net-pf-10, errno = 12 May  5 18:17:22
> > earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May 
> > 5 18:17:22 earth kernel: VM: killing process java
> > May  5 18:17:22 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:17:22 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:17:22 earth kernel: VM: killing
> > process smsbox
> > May  5 18:17:22 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:17:22 earth kernel: VM: killing process emacs
> > May  5 18:18:01 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:18:01 earth kernel: VM: killing process gsmsbox
> > May  5 18:18:01 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:18:01 earth kernel: VM: killing process sendmail
> > May  5 18:18:37 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:18:37 earth kernel: VM: killing process sendmail
> > May  5 18:18:37 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:18:38 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:18:38 earth kernel: VM: killing
> > process sh
> > May  5 18:19:01 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:19:01 earth kernel: VM: killing process java
> > May  5 18:19:48 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:19:48 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:19:48 earth kernel: VM: killing
> > process smsbox
> > May  5 18:19:49 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:19:49 earth kernel: VM: killing process
> > off_keyword
> > May  5 18:19:49 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:19:49 earth kernel: VM: killing process java
> > May  5 18:20:29 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:22:27 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:22:30 earth kernel:
> > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:22:30
> > earth kernel: VM: killing process smsbox
> > May  5 18:22:31 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:22:31 earth kernel: VM: killing process smsbox
> > May  5 18:22:55 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:22:55 earth kernel: VM: killing process modprobe
> > May  5 18:22:56 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:23:14 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:23:14 earth kernel: VM: killing
> > process sh
> > May  5 18:23:14 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:23:14 earth kernel: VM: killing process
> > dlr_handler_236 May  5 18:23:15 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:23:16 earth last message
> > repeated 2 times
> > May  5 18:23:16 earth kernel: VM: killing process smsbox
> > May  5 18:23:16 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:23:16 earth kernel: VM: killing process crond
> > May  5 18:23:16 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:23:16 earth kernel: VM: killing process
> > dlr_handler_236 May  5 18:23:16 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order
> > allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:23:16 earth kernel: VM: killing
> > process smsbox
> > May  5 18:23:16 earth kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> > (gfp=0x1d2/0) May  5 18:23:16 earth kernel: VM: killing process java
> > May  5 18:30:38 earth sshd[25651]: Accepted publickey for nsadmin from
> > 192.168.6.70 port 59842 ssh2 May  5 18:36:10 earth sshd[2006]: Accepted
> > publickey for nsadmin from 192.168.6.70 port 59877 ssh2 May  5 18:38:17
> > earth sshd[5160]: Accepted password for nsadmin from 192.168.6.35 port
> > 1964 ssh2 --
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