Le 18.08.2012 11:56, Alex Bligh a écrit :
> --On 18 August 2012 11:35:29 +0200 Denis BUCHER > wrote: > >> OK, but my problem is that when I detect an "offending" process (using too much memory), it's already too late ! The strace will only show mmaps until "[crit] Memory allocation failed" ! Do you have a suggestion on how I could "intercept" these processes before the problem happens ? > > rlimit maybe. > > I'd suggest something is trying to allocate a 'negative' amount of memory. > The real answer is to locate the bug. If you really want to do that, > build/install debug versions of your s/w, attach gdb to the running > process, and ask for a backtrace. Update : Just to let you know, we use proxying to serve http://requests/like/that to customers while internally getting http://requests?like=that if you see what I mean Could it be the source of a problem ? Denis Links: ------ [1] mailto:dbuche...@hsolutions.ch