[CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

Fri May 18 12:15:56 UTC 2012
John Stanley <john.stanley at elslc.com>

On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 13:08 -0600, Michael Coffman wrote:

> vm.overcommit_ratio = 50
                                         ^^

Try changing the commit ratio to a greater value (yes you can go over
100).
Then sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=2

Just because one machine fails gracefully does not mean the next will.
But really buy some ram for real. OR solve the real problem.



John