On Jan 17, 2008 3:53 PM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oren Held wrote: > > > > B. I can't see why disabling the swap would help to AVOID oomkiller? Swap > > should ENLARGE the available memory space; disabling swap might cause > > triggering oomkiller more frequently. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant. > > > The memory I suspect the system is running out of is the memory > allocated for the Kernel's use. It is labeled "Low memory" under > /proc/meminfo. Here is the strange part - the more memory the system > has, the more memory the kernel needs in order to keep track of it all. > On the other hand, the amount of memory the kernel actually has does not > change when you increase the amount of memory. > > Disabling the swap was my attempt to decrease the amount of overall > memory the system has, and thus decrease the memory management memory > requirement. > > As for A, when it is not application memory that the system is out of, > but kernel memory, oom-killer is, for all intent and purposes, killing > processes at random. > > - Oren > > > Shachar >
this was discussed some time ago in RH maillist http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/RedHat/2007-08/msg00121.html I hope it will be useful. Vitaly ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
