Hi,
It seems very similar to my case, where it is very easy to
completely trash the computer in 30 seconds.
Conf: core2 cpu, 2gb memory, 2gb swap, 64-bit os.
Software: latest stable xorg, firefox2, latest gnash (all from gutsy)
Go to site http://www.epl.ee/ and almost immeditately you loose
con
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:56:49 +0200
Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:41 +0100
> > Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Advice on solving this welcome preferably in mainline but I'll
> >> happily hack my kerne
Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:41 +0100
> Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Advice on solving this welcome preferably in mainline but I'll happily
>> hack my kernels with a workaround if need be.
>
> I can't see any easy hacks or workarounds to fix
Richard Purdie wrote:
I've got a problem I keep running into. My computers have buggy software
which can sometimes run out of control.
Ulimit them.
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On 25/10/07 16:20, Richard Purdie wrote:
> This isn't a new problem. My mail server used to be running an ancient
> 2.6.12 kernel and I upgraded it to 2.6.22.X in an effort to solve this
> problem which no change. My desktop shows exactly the same kind of OOM
> swap storm behaviour (2.6.20 based).
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:41 +0100
Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Advice on solving this welcome preferably in mainline but I'll happily
> hack my kernels with a workaround if need be.
I can't see any easy hacks or workarounds to fix the issue in the
current MM, except maybe activate
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'm seriously tempted to add a "kill the process using the most memory"
> > key combination into SysRq which might let me save the desktop but won't
> > help with my remote server. I could also just disable swap I guess.
>
> For specific appli
> I'm seriously tempted to add a "kill the process using the most memory"
> key combination into SysRq which might let me save the desktop but won't
> help with my remote server. I could also just disable swap I guess.
For specific applications you can set resource limits, you can also set
OOM pri
I've got a problem I keep running into. My computers have buggy software
which can sometimes run out of control. Two specific examples:
Evolution: Sometimes its memory usage decides to suddenly grow out of
control. It usually idles at around 300MB, you can watch it in top,
doubling, trebling and e
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