From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Kevin Shanahan <kmshanah@ucwb.org.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM (HighMem) on linux 2.6.24.2
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:57:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207025847.8514.675.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804010431.11271.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 04:31 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2008 11:04, Kevin Shanahan wrote:
> > Feb 28 06:32:20 hermes kernel: 5313 pages slab
> > Feb 28 06:32:20 hermes kernel: 2632 pages pagetables
> > Feb 28 06:32:20 hermes kernel: Out of memory: kill process 24013 (apache2) score 22070 or a child
> > Feb 28 06:32:20 hermes kernel: Killed process 24013 (apache2)
> >
> > Looks like the HighMem low watermark was hit again (though I've no idea
> > if that's actually significant).
>
> I kno that people routinely forget to do that, but
> at least for purely paranoid reasons you are better
> to run all daemons with setrlimit'ed memory size.
> At least all daemons which you cannot reasonably
> trust to be 100% leak-free and to have bounded
> peak memory usage.
Afaik we don't actually implement RLIMIT_RSS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-01 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-20 0:48 Kevin Shanahan
2008-03-20 8:44 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-03-20 10:17 ` Kevin Shanahan
2008-03-20 8:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-20 10:04 ` Kevin Shanahan
2008-04-01 2:31 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-04-01 4:57 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-04-01 8:17 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-04-01 8:38 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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