* James Stevens <james.stev...@jrcs.co.uk> [2010-05-14 09:43:04]:
> >Have you looked at memory cgroups and using that with limits with VMs?
>
> The problem was *NOT* that my VMs exhausted all memory. I know that
> is what "normally" triggers oom-killer, but you have to understand
> this mine was a very different scenario, hence I wanted to bring it
> to people's attention. I had about 10Gb of *FREE* HIGH and 34GB of
> *FREE* SWAP when oom-killer was activated - yep, didn't make sense
> to me either. If you want to study the logs :-
>
I understand, You could potentially encapsulate all else - except your
VM's in a small cgroup and frequently reclaim from there using the
memory cgroup. If drop caches works for you, that is good too. I am
surprised that cache allocations are causing lowmem exhaustion.
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Three Cheers,
Balbir
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