[CentOS] oom-killer.

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Johnny Hughes wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:49 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>>William Warren wrote:
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>>>set swappiness to zero.  That will force the machine to use all 
>>>physical ram before swapping for the most part.  Also i have heard 
>>>that xorg has a memory leak.  I do not know if that has been addressed 
>>>yet and that could be the cause of your issue.
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>>Could you elaborate on that (swappiness) just a bit :-) ? Is this a 
>>generic Linux setting, or RH/CentOS specific ? TIA
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>>A memory leak *WOULD* cause this kind of thing. SGI had such a problem a 
>>few years back in some version or other of their (released) IRIX OS, & 
>>X.org just got back into the game, so that's fairly plausible as well.
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>swappiness is a 2.6 kernel setting that allows you to change the
>behavior of swap memory.
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>There are a couple good links in this article:
>http://kerneltrap.org/node/3202?from=150&comments_per_page=50
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