This is plaguing Horizon project Pi2 and Pi3 devices running Xenial 16.04.2 w/ kernel 4.4.0-1050-raspi2. From a pi2:
root@horizon-00000000a17d2187:~# uname -a Linux horizon-00000000a17d2187 4.4.0-1050-raspi2 #57-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 22 12:52:22 UTC 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux root@horizon-00000000a17d2187:~# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 942128 149548 35456 494084 757124 239716 Swap: 0 0 0 Under these circumstances, the kernel's oom-killer will kill Wifi processes (rtl_rpcd), systemd-udevd, our Ethereum client (geth), and other critical processes in attempt to stay afloat rather than using reclaimable RAM. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655842 Title: "Out of memory" errors after upgrade to 4.4.0-59 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1655842/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs