[CentOS] 2.6 memory management question

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:44:31PM -0500, tblader wrote:
> Thanks for breaking that down. No I'm not all that familiar with swap
> details so it helps to have some insight. The box flatlined around 3am
> on Monday morning and memused (sar) was around 96%.  All the swap space was
> untouched.  Maybe every process running was active, and unable to be
> swapped, so the box just up and died when a request came in to allocate
> more ram.  I just don't have enough of an understanding of swap to say
> that was what happened.  I do remember a day when you could heat a small
> room with the swap activity generated on earlier 2.x kernels, but things
> seem much different with 2.6.

It could be hardware related. Maybe the hardware doesn't like that
memory module, or it has problems. Did you memtest+ all your memory?

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lfr
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