Are there any other ideas for what I might do with sysctl, the kernel config, or things I can change it /etc?
AJ ONeal On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:35 AM, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote: > The bugs I've already been bitten by is that if you have no swap the kernel > will default to sending the oom (out-of-memory) killer on any random process > and kill it in a fashion that to the casual observer appears to be a > segfault (a segfault that nor gdb nor the powers of above will tell you > isn't a segfault at all - only the kernel log). > > /etc/sysctl.conf must be configured like so for a system with no swap: > vm.overcommit_memory = 2 > vm.overcommit_ratio = 100 > > > I also found that /dev/shm has a memory leak in a few different versions > of the kernel that are particularly profound if continuously writing and > unlinking files there. > > I'm looking for a list of other settings sysctl and otherwise - that will > prevent me from banging my head against the wall. > > AJ ONeal > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
