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Out of memory kill process

Posted on October 26, 2017

I am on 8GB RAM plan, yet facing difficulties in reading 4GB file into the python pandas dataframe. Getting out of memory error. Already allocated 4GB swap file, yet issue is not solved.

Could you pls. support?

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Narbeh

November 5, 2017

Wow, 4GB single file reading directly in python on 8GB system? I would extend the swap space to at least 6GB (mkswap I mean) then try to ask kernel to use swap efficiently by modifying swappiness: Read it here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/103915/how-do-i-configure-swappiness

Woet

October 26, 2017

What is the error? What does free -m show?

alexdo

May 10, 2024

Hello,

I’ll recommend to examine the logs if the droplet us running out of memory. Usually there will be references in /var/log/messages indicating that a process was killed - oom or out of memory

What I would usually do if I’m getting that error on a Droplet with 1GB of RAM, is to add swap space, that way you would have some extra buffer in case that your RAM is fully exhausted. This step usually benefits a lot a smaller droplet.

You can follow the steps on how to do that here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-22-04

Regards

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