Ian Malone wrote: > 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. > cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 32902244 kB MemFree: 24712892 kB MemAvailable: 28580148 kB Buffers: 2996 kB Cached: 3769828 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 5229044 kB Inactive: 2420832 kB Active(anon): 3878352 kB Inactive(anon): 36628 kB Active(file): 1350692 kB Inactive(file): 2384204 kB Unevictable: 16 kB Mlocked: 16 kB SwapTotal: 16400376 kB SwapFree: 16400376 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 3877468 kB Mapped: 307056 kB Shmem: 37928 kB Slab: 295500 kB SReclaimable: 218208 kB SUnreclaim: 77292 kB KernelStack: 9264 kB PageTables: 41680 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 32851496 kB Committed_AS: 6566200 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 190544 kB VmallocChunk: 34359531516 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 194712 kB DirectMap2M: 6053888 kB DirectMap1G: 28311552 kB -- 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
