Re: 2.6.23.8: OOM killer kills wrong jobs

2007-12-17 Thread taow
> You will *probably* get stable 16GB with the vendor tuned enterprise > kernels (RHEL, CentOS etc), That's sounds "a little" relief. Thesis 1,2,3 has 16GB memory. Aries has 12G. Tony Wang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EM

Re: 2.6.23.8: OOM killer kills wrong jobs

2007-12-17 Thread Sylvain Robitaille
(removing Alan Cox from the Cc: list; He does not need to be involved in the details of our discussions of local systems ...) On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... Thesis 1,2,3 has 16GB memory. Aries has 12G. Note that the Theses and Aries are Xeon systems, which are 32-bit system

Re: 2.6.23.8: OOM killer kills wrong jobs

2007-12-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:44:05 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You will *probably* get stable 16GB with the vendor tuned enterprise > > kernels (RHEL, CentOS etc), > > That's sounds "a little" relief. Thesis 1,2,3 has 16GB memory. Aries has 12G. If you can run a 64bit kernel, it will save

Re: 2.6.23.8: OOM killer kills wrong jobs

2007-12-17 Thread Alan Cox
> ...but I've run into a situation in which a system on which I *have* set > no overcommit is being blasted by the OOM killer anyway. Looks like the kernel is eating all the resources needed. >Linux babyalcor 2.6.23.1 #1 SMP Fri Oct 26 15:35:18 EDT 2007 \ > i686 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm)

Re: 2.6.23.8: OOM killer kills wrong jobs

2007-12-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:25:23 +0100 Martin MOKREJŠ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > first of all, sorry for not being up to date with how the OOM killer > works. I think there used to be a kernel config option to disable > OOM killer and instead kill the process which actually asks for the > me

re: 2.6.23.8: OOM killer kills wrong jobs

2007-12-07 Thread Dan Kegel
Marting Mokreja wrote: > first of all, sorry for not being up to date with how the OOM killer > works. I think there used to be a kernel config option to disable > OOM killer and instead kill the process which actually asks for the > memory and supposedly caused the memory lack. That is what I woul