OOM-Killer, jboss and kernel panic
- by user32425
Hi,
We are running RedHat 3.4.6(x32) on VMWareEsx3.5(x64) with 6GB RAM.
A few java processes(including jboss) are running in the background.
The problem is that the java processes consume lots of memory, and sometimes they are killed by the OOM-killer.
When OOM-killer is about to act, the free physical memory is very low 100MB-200MB, but the swap is not used (99% free).
Sometimes this causes a kernel panic too.
So why isn't the swap used?
How to investigate this kernel panic?
Is using 6GB memory on 32bit Redhat wise?
Thanks