Virtual dedicated server repetitive draining RAM, OOM constantly

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Published on 2010-04-17T05:27:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 1:23 UTC
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My linux (fedora red hat 7) virtual dedicated server has been experiencing OOM multiple times a day for the past several days.

I thought the issue was with spamd/spamassassin but after disabling this the errors remains.

The highest usage displayed on ps faux --cumulative:

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND

root 28412 8.7 0.5 309572 109308 ? Sl 22:15 0:17 /usr/java/jdk1.

mysql 7716 0.0 0.0 136256 18000 ? Sl 22:12 0:00 _ /usr/libexe

named 17697 0.0 0.0 120904 15316 ? Ssl 22:09 0:00 /usr/sbin/named

I'm not running any java applications so I'm not sure why the top issue is showing up.

It is frustrating as I barely have anything running on the server and use the tiniest fraction of bandwidth.

Any help or suggestions on zeroing in on the source of the drain would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

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