On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:52 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:04:34AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > You can set rlimits; you can also turn off overcommit. Doesn't help > > > the yum/rpm case, of course. > > > > Can we do either of those things by default/automatically in appropriate > > cases? > > > > We should be shipping with overcommit off by default, but I've been saying > that for years too 8. You can just drop it into /etc/sysctl.conf > So I have: [root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory 0 [root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio 50 I'm assuming those are the current defaults... what should the default be to address this problem? (or what should I try first and report back on?) Havoc
