[CentOS] top and allocation issues

Fri Mar 4 01:50:36 UTC 2011
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 12:52:51AM +0000, Michael D. Berger wrote:
> 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.

Just add it to /etc/sysctl.conf


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rgds
Stephen