OCI: OL8 ARM Instance rpm process high memory usage followed by OOM and hung

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Linux x86-64

Symptoms:

OL8 ARM Instance rpm process consumed high memory usage followed by OOM and hung.

<<RPM Version>>

rpm-4.14.3-26.0.1.el8.aarch64

<<Examples>>

/usr/bin/rpm -q -f /usr/libexec/cni/dnsname` process was looping and took about 50 GB memory.zzz ***Mon Jan 15 16:03:50 UTC 2024

USER         PID    PPID PRI %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS WCHAN                                      S  STARTED     TIME COMMAND
root      136264  136157  19 99.6  0.4 526780 516584 -                                         R 16:03:34 00:00:15 /usr/bin/rpm -q -f /usr/libexec/cni/dnsname
root      136157       1  19 95.6  0.0 1798436 51448 futex_wait_queue_me                       S 16:03:34 00:00:15 /usr/bin/podman --log-level=info system service

zzz ***Mon Jan 15 16:51:39 UTC 2024

root      136264  136157  19 43.8 47.5 61416376 51282680 pipe_write   S 16:03:34 00:29:17 /usr/bin/rpm -q -f /usr/libexec/cni/dnsname.