📄️ Overview
When receiving an OOM killer load alert notification via email, the next step you should obviously take is to investigate the root cause of a happen problem and apply some resolution. To help you with that, we’ve already analyzed the most commonly met issues and defined the very efficient ways to fix them and prevent their occurrence in future. The three main groups of processes are highlighted below:
📄️ Common Cases
Examine the following table to get resolutions for some of the most common processes being killed by the OOM tool:
📄️ Memory Leak Processes
Pay special attention to the processes in this group as to the most probable cause of your out-of-memory issues (sorted based on server role):
📄️ Non-Leaking Processes
Processes, listed in this section, could be terminated by OOM killer in attempt to free RAM for other operations, though commonly they do not cause memory leak problems by themselves: