On 11/23/06, Xavier Bestel <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 14:30 +0200, Yakov Lerner wrote:
> Where can I read anything about how kernel is supposed to
> react to the 'swap-full' condition ? We have troubles on the
> production machine which routinely arrives to the swap-full state
> no matter how I increase the swap, because user proceses multi-fork
> and then want to allocate a lot of virtual memory.
Did you disable memory overcommit ?
When I set overcommit to 1 (2.4 seems not to have 1 vs 2
distinction, am I right), then still root processes are killed
when non-root process is a memory hog. Is there an option
to have malloc return NULL and never kill a process when
malloc fails ?
Thanks
Yakov
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