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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG]  oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:28:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041012162820.GY9106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416BF72F.2080804@nortelnetworks.com>

>On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:03:16PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>>> I must be able to run an app that uses over 90% of system memory, and 
>>> calls fork().  I was under the impression this made strict accounting 
>>> unfeasable?

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Not so. Just add enough swapspace to act as the backing store for the
>> aggregate anonymous virtualspace.

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:24:31AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> In my first message I mentioned that I had no swap.  It's embedded, so I do 
> not have the ability to add swap.

Then the closest thing to a good idea may be to enable overcommitment.
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to do that.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-12 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-09  0:14 [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 Chris Friesen
2004-10-09  0:26 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-11 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-12  5:03   ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12  5:22     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-12 15:24       ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 16:28         ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-10-12  9:44     ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-12 15:32       ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 20:08         ` Chris Wright
2004-10-12 20:41           ` [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 -- FIXED in -rc4 Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 20:54             ` Chris Wright
2004-10-12 21:02     ` [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 Alan Cox
2004-10-12 22:25       ` Chris Friesen

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