Il 21/04/21 13:04, Stefan Solbrig ha scritto: Tks for answering. > You could also consider disabling overcommitting memory: /etc/sysctl.d/<whatever>: > vm.overcommit_memory = 2 > vm.overcommit_ratio = 100 > (See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting) Interesting idea, but a bit of swapping is not too bad. > This way, If users allocate too much memory, they get an error upon allocation. > This should limit the cases where the oom killer needs to take action. > however, it has other side effects, like killing user programs that overcommit > by default. (Or user programs that fork() a lot.) Actually the fork()-intensive programs are the ones that most likely are behaving badly... I'll have to dig deeper. -- Diego Zuccato DIFA - Dip. di Fisica e Astronomia Servizi Informatici Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna V.le Berti-Pichat 6/2 - 40127 Bologna - Italy tel.: +39 051 20 95786 ________ Community Meeting Calendar: Schedule - Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 14:30 IST / 09:00 UTC Bridge: https://meet.google.com/cpu-eiue-hvk Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users