OCI : Yum Install Command Getting Killed On Oracle Linux 8 Instance

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64

SYMPTOMS

Yum command execution is failing on Oracle Linux 8 Instance, while trying execute the command "yum install httpd" below error is returned.

[root@xxxx ~]# yum install httpd

killed

CAUSE

System is running out of memory hence the yum command is getting killed, instance has only 119728 kB memory available

cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal: 970860 kB

MemFree: 62656 kB

MemAvailable: 119728 kB

jul 30 11:53:29 xxxx kernel: yum invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), order=0, oom_score_adj=0

Jul 30 11:53:30 xxxx kernel: CPU: 1 PID: 3847 Comm: yum Not tainted 5.15.0-207.156.6.el8uek.x86_64 #2