XK0-006 · Question #137
Users report that after about a week, an application hosted in a system stops responding, requiring the system to be restarted to recover. A systems administrator connects to the system and obtains…
The correct answer is C. The application has a memory leak, which consumes all the available memory on the system. The output shows memory and swap are fully consumed, and the kernel invoked the OOM killer against the application due to excessive resident memory usage, which is consistent with a memory leak gradually exhausting available RAM and swap until the application becomes
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Users report that after about a week, an application hosted in a system stops responding, requiring the system to be restarted to recover. A systems administrator connects to the system and obtains the following output:
Which of the following describes the reason the application stops responding?
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Options
- AThe application is configured incorrectly, which depletes memory and swap.
- BThe application has an incorrect disk quota, which fills up the filesystem.
- CThe application has a memory leak, which consumes all the available memory on the system.
- DThe application is not allowed to allocate memory, which slows down the system.
How the community answered
(29 responses)- A7% (2)
- B3% (1)
- C79% (23)
- D10% (3)
Explanation
The output shows memory and swap are fully consumed, and the kernel invoked the OOM killer against the application due to excessive resident memory usage, which is consistent with a memory leak gradually exhausting available RAM and swap until the application becomes
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