# App stuck at pending state after an OOM error

**URL:** <https://community.fly.io/t/app-stuck-at-pending-state-after-an-oom-error/2055>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [July 30, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/app-stuck-at-pending-state-after-an-oom-error/2055 "2021-07-30T15:13:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![yannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/yannis/32/48284_2.png) [@yannis](https://community.fly.io/u/yannis)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/app-stuck-at-pending-state-after-an-oom-error/2055/1 "2021-07-30T15:13:40Z")

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I have a redis instance (empty-smoke-2580) that was killed after an OOM error :

```auto
2021-07-30T14:38:32.642944691Z app[281eb1b6] cdg [info] [3.884091] Out of memory: Killed process 526 (redis-server) total-vm:1234408kB, anon-rss:937892kB, file-rss:4kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:2092kB oom_score_adj:0
2021-07-30T14:38:32.705837738Z app[281eb1b6] cdg [info] Killed
2021-07-30T14:38:32.911454420Z app[281eb1b6] cdg [info] Main child exited normally with code: 137
2021-07-30T14:38:32.912373574Z app[281eb1b6] cdg [info] Starting clean up.
2021-07-30T14:38:32.929419701Z app[281eb1b6] cdg [info] Umounting /dev/vdc from /data

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I tried to restart the app and scale it to 1 vm again but it’s now stuck in “pending” state.

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**Author:** ![kurt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/kurt/32/43757_2.png) [@kurt](https://community.fly.io/u/kurt)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/app-stuck-at-pending-state-after-an-oom-error/2055/2 "2021-07-30T15:16:39Z")

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Wow that’s a pain. Let me see what’s up.

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**Author:** ![kurt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/kurt/32/43757_2.png) [@kurt](https://community.fly.io/u/kurt)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/app-stuck-at-pending-state-after-an-oom-error/2055/3 "2021-07-30T15:24:16Z")

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It looks like it kept OOMing when it boots and tries to apply the AOF log.

```auto
526:M 30 Jul 2021 15:20:50.427 * RDB memory usage when created 562.40 Mb
526:M 30 Jul 2021 15:20:50.427 * RDB has an AOF tail
526:M 30 Jul 2021 15:20:52.547 * Reading the remaining AOF tail...
[3.433183] Out of memory: Killed process 526 (redis-server) total-vm:1234408kB, anon-rss:937376kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:2100kB oom_score_adj:0
Killed

```

I temporarily bumped it to 2GB of memory and it started fine. If you want to keep it at 2gb, run `fly scale vm shared-cpu-1x --memory 2048`, if you want to drop it back down to 1gb, you’ll likely need to clear some data out first.