[CentOS] oom-killer.

Wed Dec 14 17:04:23 UTC 2005
J.J.Garcia <stigmatedbrain at gmail.com>

Thx folks! taking note...

J.J.

William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:49 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>>>William Warren wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>
>>>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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>>>
>>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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> Thanks !!!!
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