i typically run with 128MB real memory and 750MB of swap *used* (out of 4G). the oom killer hasn't been up on murder charges on my machine yet.
- erik On Thu Jul 13 11:12:07 CDT 2006, [email protected] wrote: > Charles Forsyth wrote: > > > > > Linux apparently takes the Atlas approach and thrashes on demand. > > > > until it starts killing random processes. Usually the wrong one. But, > hey, heuristics, right? > > I think I prefer 'no swap and panic' to 'kill random processes'. I can't > differentiate between OOM killer and uncorrectable ECC errors. > > Of course, the kill on no memory guck is now appearing in other places: > I can't build the myrinet tools on my machine any more, as this symbol > is not found: > /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > oh yea. I'm loving those versioned symbols more than ever. > > ron
