Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > My system is a SunFire x4100 (x86_64) with 16G of RAM and 32G of swap > in a single partition. I have an application which consumes a lot of > memory, and after a few hours the oom-killer kills it. > > This would not be surprising, except a) the machine still has 27G of > free swap at the time; and b) it happens even when I set > vm.overcommit_memory=2 (with overcommit_ratio=50). It is > time-consuming to reproduce, but consistent. : : > 2) Is there any sysctl setting that might "avoid" this problem? Or a > way to change my application to avoid it?
Try setting the overcommit_ratio=0. Thanks! -- Al - 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/
