# Es node suddenly OOM with "fatal error on the network layer"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-node-suddenly-oom-with-fatal-error-on-the-network-layer/177746>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 21, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-node-suddenly-oom-with-fatal-error-on-the-network-layer/177746 "2019-04-21T09:31:14Z")\
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hi,  
ES version: 5.4.3  
java version: 1.8.0\_162

ES was running normally and GC is normal too. But one node suddenly OOM with "fatal error on the network layer"

logs link:

> <https://gist.github.com/wangxiangyu/52693396321930ee040245b2ef7356a6>

Does anyone meet this before? How to debug this problem ?

Thank you in advance!

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