--- Ralf Ertzinger <fedora-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > After having firefox killed by the OOM-killer due to > a totem running wild > (and watching the killer churn the disks for 5 > minutes to do so, what the heck > is it doing?), I ventured to try a hard overcommit > limit (which setting > vm.overcommit_memory=2 does, to the best of my > knowledge). The system in > question has 640MB RAM, no swap. > > The result is that almost nothing works, even with > plenty of memory free. > It's even impossible to get a simple man page to > display: a bug report with other important information like the exact ernel version number would be useful ===== Regards Rahul Sundaram __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250