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SubjectRe: Linux machines dieing in swap storms
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On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'm seriously tempted to add a "kill the process using the most memory"
> > key combination into SysRq which might let me save the desktop but won't
> > help with my remote server. I could also just disable swap I guess.
>
> For specific applications you can set resource limits, you can also set
> OOM priorities in current kernels to pick who dies.

I couldn't seem to find much documentation on this. For the archive and
to confirm we're talking about the same thing, you mean:

echo 10 > /proc/PID/oom_adj

(and ulimit/setrlimit for the resource limits) ?

This assumes I know in advance which processes are likely to go mad
which isn't ideal although it could solve my immediate problem.

> Finally you can disable overcommit and go for a rigid "no overcommit"
> policy where the system will fail any memory allocation which might lead
> to out of memory situations later.

Its certainly another option but other processes then suffer because
certain applications have bugs in them?

Thanks,

Richard

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