Ubuntu – Server out of memory – started to kill all processes

memory usage

Is possible to get know what process consumed all memory or why server start killing all processes?
All started about 02:47
Kern.log
Syslog.log

Best Answer

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  • Install htop via sudo apt install htop
  • start htop by typing htop
  • Press F6 to trigger the sort-function and select MEM% on the left side via arrow keys

As a result you get a dynamic list of all processes sorted by mem-usage