[CentOS] oom-killer.

Wed Dec 14 15:38:20 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:49 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 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.
> 
swappiness is a 2.6 kernel setting that allows you to change the
behavior of swap memory.

There are a couple good links in this article:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/3202?from=150&comments_per_page=50

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