[gentoo-user] Re: OOM memory issues

2014-09-18 Thread James
Kerin Millar kerframil at fastmail.co.uk writes: The need for the OOM killer stems from the fact that memory can be overcommitted. These articles may prove informative: http://lwn.net/Articles/317814/ Yea I saw this article. Its dated February 4, 2009. How much has changed with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OOM memory issues

2014-09-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/09/2014 19:27, James wrote: Kerin Millar kerframil at fastmail.co.uk writes: The need for the OOM killer stems from the fact that memory can be overcommitted. These articles may prove informative: http://lwn.net/Articles/317814/ Yea I saw this article. Its dated February 4, 2009.

[gentoo-user] Re: OOM memory issues

2014-09-18 Thread James
Kerin Millar kerframil at fastmail.co.uk writes: A new tunable, oom_score_adj, was added, which accepts values between 0 and 1000. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a63d83f#include/linux/oom.h FANTASTIC! Exactly the sort of info I'm looking for learn the pass, see what has been

[gentoo-user] Re: OOM memory issues

2014-09-18 Thread James
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: A big problem with Linux along these fronts is that we don't really have good mechanisms for prioritizing memory use. You can set hard limits of course, which aren't flexible, but otherwise software is trusted to just guess how much RAM it should