Out of memory (oom) issues

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 09:51:24 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 09:43:45 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 09:33:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:  
>>>and just in case it should be related to tmpfs
>>>
>>>  df -h | grep tmpfs    
>>
>>PS:
>>
>>Assuming that tmpfs should be the culprit, it's possible to assign
>>more RAM to tmpfs by an entry in /etc/fstab.
>>
>>  tmpfs          /tmp        tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=3G     0 0
>>
>>This is just an example, replacing 3G by any other value might be
>>appropriate. The default without an fstab entry is half of the RAM.  
>
>PPS:
>
>My apologies for that many PS, I forgot to mention that after
>editing /etc/fstab running
>
>  sudo mount -a
>
>might do the job, but perhaps it requires to reboot.

PPPS ;D:

Another culprit could be PAM, run

  grep memlock /etc/security/limits.conf
  grep memlock /etc/security/limits.d/*

Regards,
Ralf