On Wednesday 11 April 2007 16:48, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:23:31AM -0300, Pedro wrote: > > After suffering some days from a not|mis configured tmpfs, > > > > As the OOM killer is not Posix, > > > > Better than to kill processes would be to resize tmpfs, to use tmpfs > > empty space. > > Will not work, because tmpfs does not use any memory for unused space. If > you don't believe me, simply create a large file on your tmpfs, then check > free memory, then remove the file and check free memory again. > > So your problem is not caused by the empty space on tmpfs, but either by > too much space used on tmpfs or by your application using too much memory. > ... > > If you cannot control your application's memory usage, you'll have to > finely tune the overcommit_ratio. > > Regards, > Willy
You are right. But now I have two questions: 1) Why is tmpfs total space fixed if at the check moment does not exist sufficient memory? 2) How should an application be written to not be killed by OOM? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
