On Jan 17, 2008 3:53 PM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oren Held wrote:
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> > 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 misund
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 t
I have no direct answer to your question. Oom-killer should be triggered in a
memory emergency, and not when there's enough free memory space.
Some notes though:
A. oom killer doesn't randomly choose a process to kill.. I described the
algorithm for choosing a candidate for killing in:
http:/
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
- As a first stage, disable the swap.
This doesn't make much sense to me. What is it suppose to achieve?
It is SUPPOSED to achieve less memory to keep track of. As far as I
understand it, the kernel keeps track over which virtual pages reside i
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
- As a first stage, disable the swap.
This doesn't make much sense to me. What is it suppose to achieve?
It is SUPPOSED to achieve less memory to keep track of. As far as I
understand it, the kernel keeps track over which virtual pages reside in
which physical locati
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Machine with 16GB ram and a bit of swap, running 32bit gentoo with (as
far as I know) 3:1 memory split.
The symptoms:
Every so often the oom-killer kicks in, for no apparent reason. The
processes it kills appear to be randomly chosen. Monitoring was not
turned on,
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 12:32 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Hi list,
>
>
> I need the esteemed people's second opinion to a recommendation I gave a
> client.
>
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> The setup:
>
> Machine with 16GB ram and a bit of swap, running 32bit gentoo with (as
> far as I know) 3:1 memory split.
>
>
Hi list,
I need the esteemed people's second opinion to a recommendation I gave a
client.
The setup:
Machine with 16GB ram and a bit of swap, running 32bit gentoo with (as
far as I know) 3:1 memory split.
The symptoms:
Every so often the oom-killer kicks in, for no apparent reason. The
