On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:06 -0400, Cristian Silva wrote: > Sorry, forgot to mention that we are getting the oom-killer with another > application, we are not using VMware. The actual application is pretty much irrelevant once the oom-killer is involved. > The total low memory reported by the PAE and the normal kernel are the same > > PAE > # free -lm > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 7994 348 7646 0 70 179 > Low: 827 102 724 > High: 7167 245 6922 > -/+ buffers/cache: 98 7896 > Swap: 4094 0 4094 > # > > > Normal > # free -lm > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3930 309 3621 0 17 196 > Low: 859 47 811 > High: 3071 261 2810 > -/+ buffers/cache: 95 3835 > Swap: 4094 0 4094 > # > > Both commands were executed just after a reboot of the system and it's > interesting to see that the used low memory in the PAE kernel is the double > of the used low memory in a "normal" kernel There's also slightly less low memory when running PAE, but obviously way more high memory since the regular kernel is limited to 4Gb. My understanding is that the PAE kernel *should* be roughly equivalent to the RHEL4 hugemem kernel, but unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case. Per my earlier post, low memory on a box running RHEL4 jumped significantly when running the hugemem kernel. I wonder why this isn't the case when using the RHEL5 PAE kernel? Unfortunately I don't have any speare hardware to experiment with at the moment. > We already tried the parameters that Ray suggested and they didnt make any > difference. > > vm.lower_zone_protection is not available in the rhel5, so we are going to > try with less memory and see what it happens. > > Thanks all for the information/suggestions, this thread has been excellent. You mentioned 64-bit wasn't an option at the moment...any chance it migh be? When I installed 64-bit RHEL4, it also installed the 32-bit versions of many packages and thus far I haven't had any issues. -Eric -- Eric Sisler <esisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Library Network Specialist Westminster Public Library Westminster, CO USA Linux - Don't fear the Penguin. Want to know what we use Linux for? Visit http://wallace.westminster.lib.co.us/linux -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
