Am 29.08.2012 um 17:02 schrieb Ben De Luca:

> I was wondering, how people deal with oom conditions on there cluster.
> We constantly have machines that die because the oom killer takes out
> critical system services.
> 
> Has any experiance with the oom_adj proc value, or a patch to grid to
> support it?

Do the users request memory by virtual_free or h_vmem? Touching oom looks like 
fixing the symptoms and not the cause.

-- Reuti

> 
> /proc/[pid]/oom_adj (since Linux 2.6.11)
>              This file can be used to adjust the score used to select
> which process
>              should be killed in an out-of-memory (OOM) situation.
> The kernel uses
>              this value for a bit-shift operation of the process's
> oom_score value:
>              valid values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the
> special value -17,
>              which disables OOM-killing altogether for this process.
> A positive
>              score increases the likelihood of this process being
> killed by the OOM-
>              killer; a negative score decreases the likelihood.  The
> default value
>              for this file is 0; a new process inherits its parent's oom_adj
>              setting.  A process must be privileged
> (CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) to update
>              this file.
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