Re: Running with vm.overcommit_memory=2

[Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram yahoo co in>]

--- Ralf Ertzinger <fedora-devel camperquake de>
wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> After having firefox killed by the OOM-killer due to
> a totem running wild
> (and watching the killer churn the disks for 5
> minutes to do so, what the heck
> is it doing?), I ventured to try a hard overcommit
> limit (which setting
> vm.overcommit_memory=2 does, to the best of my
> knowledge). The system in
> question has 640MB RAM, no swap.
> 
> The result is that almost nothing works, even with
> plenty of memory free.
> It's even impossible to get a simple man page to
> display:

a bug report with other important information like the
exact ernel version number would be useful

=====
Regards
Rahul Sundaram


		
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