Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Out of memory, but no OOM Killer? (2.6.9-ac11) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:29:46 +0000 |
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On Gwe, 2004-11-26 at 22:47, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > rsync seems to want lots of memory, yet the OOM killer doesn't strike. > Subsequently, that machine died an ugly death until delivered by a > power-cycle. > > Why doesn't the OOM killer reap rsync?
The OOM killer is a very dumb (near useless) heuristic. You can turn it off or switch to sane overcommit module by setting /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to 1 or 2 respectively.
In this case your bug looks like the 2.6.9 network problem in which case if you are lucky -ac12 will have fixed it as I merged the stuff DaveM recommended into that.
Alan
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