On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
I'd suggest the automount route as well (you're only open to NFS issues while the filesystem is mounted), but you then have to maintain automount maps and run the risk of issues with the automounter (I've seen large production environments in which the OOM killer would arbitrarily select processes to kill ....).
Once you're into an OOM state, you're screwed anyway. Is turning off overcommit a sane option these days or not?
jh