[CentOS] top and allocation issues

[Brunner, Brian T.]

> It appears that option 2 would be the best for me, so I set: sysctl
> vm.overcommit_memory=2 
> 
> However, it resets to 0 on reboot, and only root can reset it.
> It would be good if it would be set to 2 on reboot.  Is there
> a good way to do this?  I suppose I could put something in
> /etc/init.d/ if there is no better way.

man sysctl.conf (file: /etc/sysctl.conf)

I'm betting
vm.overcommit_memory=2
is the line you want to add to /etc/sysctl.conf.

This is a bet that "sysctl -p" is somewhere in your /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit


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