# OOM issues with Influx

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/oom-issues-with-influx/943>\
**Category:** Systems\
**Created:** [May 15, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/oom-issues-with-influx/943 "2017-05-15T14:40:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![gcyre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/gcyre/32/3845_2.png) [@gcyre](https://community.influxdata.com/u/gcyre)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/oom-issues-with-influx/943/1 "2017-05-15T14:40:02Z")

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Hello

We’ve had Influx running in production for a few months and recently started having issues with OOM-killer shutting down the influx service.

The server is decently powered, dual quad core CPUs/w 128GB of RAM and lots of disk. We have about 800 measurements with roughly 800K series. Is there any documentation I can look at that will give me some areas to look at to determine the health of our installation?

Not sure where to start to troubleshoot this.

thanks  
Garry

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**Author:** ![jackzampolin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jackzampolin/32/5_2.png) [@jackzampolin](https://community.influxdata.com/u/jackzampolin)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/oom-issues-with-influx/943/2 "2017-05-15T17:46:29Z")

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@gcyre do you have a graph of memory utilization on the box? Also are there any other processes running on that host?

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**Author:** ![gcyre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/gcyre/32/3845_2.png) [@gcyre](https://community.influxdata.com/u/gcyre)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/oom-issues-with-influx/943/3 "2017-05-15T18:21:42Z")

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@jackzampolin

Here are 2 graphs I’m looking at

 ![](https://discoursecommunity.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/1X/ed78eb65a57cabb6446be778bb6f2101c95900e8.png)

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**Author:** ![gcyre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/gcyre/32/3845_2.png) [@gcyre](https://community.influxdata.com/u/gcyre)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/oom-issues-with-influx/943/4 "2017-05-15T18:25:34Z")

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the only services running on this server are Influxdb, telegraf and kapacitor but we haven’t implemented any tick scripts yet.

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**Author:** ![gcyre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/gcyre/32/3845_2.png) [@gcyre](https://community.influxdata.com/u/gcyre)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/oom-issues-with-influx/943/5 "2017-05-16T19:58:54Z")

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I’ve been digging into the issue more and created some graphs based on the influx internal metrics, from what I can see there hasn’t really been any pressure on memory and cpu. I’m beginning to think there isn’t an issue and the problems we noticed are an isolated issue.

Is there a way to limit the information being logged to influxd.log? its being filled with [httpd] messages, all I would really want to see is any errors that are happening

thanks  
Garry

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**Author:** ![jackzampolin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jackzampolin/32/5_2.png) [@jackzampolin](https://community.influxdata.com/u/jackzampolin)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/oom-issues-with-influx/943/6 "2017-05-17T15:23:06Z")

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@gcyre you can always use some grep-foo to look for 500’s: `journalctl -u influxdb | grep -v " 500 "`