[CentOS] oom-killer.

Wed Dec 14 14:49:13 UTC 2005
William A. Mahaffey III <wam at HiWAAY.net>

William Warren wrote:

> 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.


Could you elaborate on that (swappiness) just a bit :-) ? Is this a 
generic Linux setting, or RH/CentOS specific ? TIA

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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