On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:34:14PM -0400, Cristian Silva wrote: > This is great info. > > We are having this problem on a RHEL5 server with 8gb of ram (32bits) since > some time ago. > > I understand that the hugemem kernel is no longer available in RHEL5, so we > installed the PAE kernel but it makes no difference, we still have the oom. > > 64bits is not an option at the moment, so if i understand correctly, using > just 4gb of ram instead of the 8gb that we currently have, could potentially > solve the oom-killer problem ? > Are you able to try some of the following settings (mentioned earlier in the thread): vm.min_free_kbytes = 16384 vm.overcommit_memory = 2 vm.overcommit_ratio = 75 vm.lower_zone_protection = 100 vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 10000 In addition, you can always tweak with the /proc/<pid>/oom_(adj|score) files in RHEL5 and make VMware impervious to the OOM killer. Ray -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
