On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Something is seriously wrong with that OOM killer. > > do you know you don't have to operate in OOM-slaughter mode? > > "vm.overcommit_memory = 2" in your /etc/sysctl.conf puts you into a mode where > the kernel tracks your "committed" memory needs, and will eventually cause > some allocations to fail. > this is often much nicer than the default random OOM slaughter. > (you probably also need to adjust vm.overcommit_ratio with some knowlege of > your MemTotal and SwapTotal.) > > regards, mark hahn. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > # sysctl -a | grep vm.over vm.overcommit_ratio = 50 vm.overcommit_memory = 0 I'll have to experiment with these options, thanks for the info! Justin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
