I'm getting occasional OOM faults apparently originating from clamd on debian.

Is there a simple way to track down why these are happening and preventing them?

Top never shows any problems, and the machine is very lightly loaded.

Message log begins:

> Mar  3 21:18:27 rose kernel: clamd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201da, 
> order=0, oom_adj=0
> Mar  3 21:18:28 rose kernel: Pid: 1790, comm: clamd Not tainted 
> 2.6.32.8-kvm-i386-20100212 #1
> Mar  3 21:18:28 rose kernel: Call Trace:
> Mar  3 21:18:28 rose kernel:  [<c147e2b7>] ? printk+0x18/0x1a
> Mar  3 21:18:28 rose kernel:  [<c107bfb7>] oom_kill_process+0x77/0x220
> Mar  3 21:18:28 rose kernel:  [<c107c59a>] __out_of_memory+0xfa/0x150
> Mar  3 21:18:28 rose kernel:  [<c107c634>] out_of_memory+0x44/0x90
> Mar  3 21:18:28 rose kernel:  [<c107f2cf>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4ff/0x510
> Mar  3 21:18:28 rose kernel:  [<c108091a>] 
> __do_page_cache_readahead+0xba/0x1c0

etc.

Any suggestions welcome.

paul

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