Dear MySQL users, I got an "Out of memory" error message on server yesterday. I restarted mysqld, and everything was go back to normal and now is fine.
It happened already twice in this weekend even. But I don't know what's wrong. Server has QuadCore Xeon CPU, 4G ECC RAM, 2G x 49(ea) ibdata files, mostly based on using InnoDB typed tables. Below is server condition details. [r...@svr40 mysql]# ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 77824 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 77824 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited [r...@svr40 mysql]# uname -a Linux svr40.hsl.co.kr 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 08:16:13 EST 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [r...@svr40 mysql]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.4 (Final) [r...@svr40 mysql]# rpm -qa | grep MySQL MySQL-devel-community-5.1.42-0.rhel5 MySQL-client-community-5.1.42-0.rhel5 MySQL-server-community-5.1.42-0.rhel5 [r...@svr40 mysql]# tail -50 svr40.xxxx.err 101103 15:12:25 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:12:25 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:12:25 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:12:25 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:12:28 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095116 bytes) 101103 15:12:38 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:12:38 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:12:42 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095236 bytes) 101103 15:12:43 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095584 bytes) 101103 15:12:45 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:12:45 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:12:47 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095200 bytes) 101103 15:12:51 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095116 bytes) 101103 15:13:12 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095120 bytes) 101103 15:13:16 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:13:16 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:13:19 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095120 bytes) 101103 15:13:22 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095548 bytes) 101103 15:13:23 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:13:23 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:13:28 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095548 bytes) 101103 15:13:32 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:13:34 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095500 bytes) 101103 15:13:38 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095548 bytes) 101103 15:13:38 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095392 bytes) 101103 15:13:40 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095120 bytes) 101103 15:13:40 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095120 bytes) 101103 15:13:41 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:13:41 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095132 bytes) 101103 15:13:45 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095548 bytes) 101103 15:13:49 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095200 bytes) 101103 15:13:51 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095128 bytes) 101103 15:13:51 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095284 bytes) 101103 15:13:52 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095548 bytes) 101103 15:13:57 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095128 bytes) 101103 15:13:57 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Out of memory (Needed 2095284 bytes) 101103 15:14:02 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Normal shutdown 101103 15:14:02 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events 101103 15:14:04 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 101103 15:14:08 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 10 437654676 101103 15:14:08 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete 101103 15:14:08 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/svr40.xxx.pid ended 101103 15:14:15 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 101103 15:14:15 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 101103 15:14:16 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 10 437654676 101103 15:14:16 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events 101103 15:14:16 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.1.42-community-log' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL) [r...@svr40 mysql]# cat /etc/my.cnf . . . . [mysqld] max_connections = 500 max_connect_errors = 30 table_open_cache = 4096 max_allowed_packet = 16M binlog_cache_size = 1M max_binlog_size = 100M expire_logs_days = 7 max_heap_table_size = 64M sort_buffer_size = 8M join_buffer_size = 8M thread_cache_size = 8 thread_concurrency = 8 query_cache_size = 64M query_cache_limit = 2M tmp_table_size = 64M log-bin=mysql-bin binlog_format=mixed slow_query_log long_query_time = 30\ key_buffer_size = 32M read_buffer_size = 2M read_rnd_buffer_size = 16M bulk_insert_buffer_size = 64M myisam_sort_buffer_size = 128M myisam_max_sort_file_size = 10G myisam_repair_threads = 1 innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 16M innodb_buffer_pool_size = 2G innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:2G;ibdata2:2G;................ibdata45:2G;ibdata46:100M:autoextend innodb_file_io_threads = 4 innodb_thread_concurrency = 16 innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1 innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M innodb_log_file_size = 512M innodb_log_files_in_group = 3 innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct = 90 innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 120 . . . I expect the trouble-shooting soon, at least the reason catching. Thank you. Kim Chi