Hi, >> >> I tried with the /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory=2 and the system refused to >> load the program altogether. >> >> In this scenario is making overcommit_memory=2 a good idea? > >(Good mailing list practices ask you not to top-post - that is, make your >reply text follow the text you are replying other than appearing before it, >as I demonstrate here:) > Hope this time round I am following the std practice. :-) > >Well, how much memory do you have? Does the application actually need more >memory than your system can provide? If this is the case, there isn't going >to be any fix except add more memory. Your choices are: > >1. Let the OOM killer sacrifice processes because you don't have enough memory >2. Disable VM overcommit so that the OOM killer doesn't get engaged (rather, >the application's attempt to grab the memory will fail) >3. Add more memory, don't mess with the overcommit sysctl, and watch things >work nicely :P >Are you sure it's not a memory leak? Does the application work on a freshly >booted system? I have a total of 16 MB RAM. My main concern is that I was running the same set of applications earlier on linux-2.4.19-rmk7-pxa1 and didn't get any out of memory. I am running the same application and get the OOM, though the appearance is not uniform, at times it comes on a freshly booted system and at times it didn't come when the system is on overnight.... Why I am getting here??? Is there any problem with linux-2.6.13? I have tried to check the application for memory leak with no success. There seems to be no memory leak. >Thanks, >Chase Regards, Abu. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
