* James Stevens <James.Stevens@xxxxxxxxxx> [2010-05-14 09:43:04]: > >Have you looked at memory cgroups and using that with limits with VMs? > > The problem was *NOT* that my VMs exhausted all memory. I know that > is what "normally" triggers oom-killer, but you have to understand > this mine was a very different scenario, hence I wanted to bring it > to people's attention. I had about 10Gb of *FREE* HIGH and 34GB of > *FREE* SWAP when oom-killer was activated - yep, didn't make sense > to me either. If you want to study the logs :- > I understand, You could potentially encapsulate all else - except your VM's in a small cgroup and frequently reclaim from there using the memory cgroup. If drop caches works for you, that is good too. I am surprised that cache allocations are causing lowmem exhaustion. -- Three Cheers, Balbir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
