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An AWS EC2 instance behind an Elastic Load Balancer became unresponsive due to repeated TCP out‑of‑memory errors, which were resolved by examining kernel messages, adjusting tcp_mem‑related kernel parameters, and rebooting the server after a long uptime.
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