OOM stands for "Out Of Memory" and it does indeed seem to be the same as
what IRIX had. I believe you can turn the feature off and also configure
its overcomitment by setting something in /proc/..... and unfortunately, I
don't remember more than that.
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Craig A. James wrote:
OOM? Can you give me a quick pointer to what this acronym stands for and how
I can reconfigure it? It sounds like a "feature" old UNIX systems like SGI
IRIX had, where the system would allocate virtual memory that it didn't
really have, then kill your process if you tried to use it. I.e. malloc()
would never return NULL even if swap space was over allocated. Is this what
you're talking about? Having this enabled on a server is deadly for
reliability.
Thanks,
Craig
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