On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 14:53 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:22:54PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > [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?) > > 2 and 50 assuming you have swap. In that mode the system will refuse to > let you create anything that might drive the box into overcommit. It works > better yet in 2.6.10 as Andries modified the kernel to pre-reserve the > pages for a typical stack so that programs didn't get killed occasionally > by stack expand failure (it reserves the space not allocates the memory so > its impact on performance is nil) > Hmm, that made evolution exit within 2 minutes of enabling it ;-) Maybe I need the 2.6.10 fix... Havoc
