On 1 December 2015 at 15:19, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a pretty nice workstation, with 8 cores and 32G RAM. > > A stupid little python program just killed it by consuming all the memory, > driving it into swapping hell. > > I couldn't even ssh into it - I started up ssh and went for coffee. On > return I still didn't have a prompt. Had to power cycle it. > > This is F23, everything is setup default regarding kernel memory policies, > etc. > > So, can we configure things to give a better experience? Can we make this > default? > Maybe one for the devel list where they can do something about it. I haven't actually checked what the current Fedora policies are, since at work I use RHEL. I'd have thought the oom killer would get this. Really taking out all the memory with no swap available seems more likely to kill a system, possibly memory use can expand too fast, but on systems with some swap I've rarely seen things get to the point you can't get a virtual terminal up. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
