[CentOS] XFS and CentOS 4.3

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 15:12 -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> <flame mode="on">
> Now, I wouldn't call this kind of thing "stable" operating system or  
> "stable" file system.  If application asks for too much memory it  
> should get killed (btw, system had 1 gig of RAM and application asked  
> for like 600 meg, plus there was plenty of swap space free too -- so I  
> wouldn't call this a case of app asking too much).  You definetely  
> don't end up with corrupted file system.
> </flame>

- Did you enforce process limits?
- Was the memory fragmented, and how does the applications allocate
memory?
- I suppose that vm.oom-kill is still set to 1?

Oh, and there's always bad karma (or semi-random errors if you
prefer) ;).

-- Daniel