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From: Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Wyss <hwyss@ywesee.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.29 runs out of memory and hangs.
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:07:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40a4ed590904270707p3a777adcv1e22e89ec0e0a8d7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40a4ed590904270639y2e1d29aaud7d66164d22e4e6b@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:55 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
>>> There is work being done on a per-cgroup lowmem notifier which would allow
>>> userspace to poll() on a device file and be notified of low memory
>>> situations so that it can react on its own (like killing a low priority
>>> task, expanding a cpuset, increasing a memcontroller limit, etc.)
>>
>> Surely anything that important ought to be running with overcommit
>> disabled anyways.
>
> Where do I enable or disable overcommit?

Ok, I found this one as well:

Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting

and

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html?page=2

is a useful article for the beginner.

Best
Zeno

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-27 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-24 10:09 Zeno Davatz
2009-04-24 17:17 ` David Rientjes
2009-04-24 18:13   ` Zeno Davatz
2009-04-24 19:00     ` David Rientjes
2009-04-24 19:16       ` Zeno Davatz
2009-04-24 19:26         ` David Rientjes
2009-04-25  8:32           ` Zeno Davatz
2009-04-26 19:55             ` David Rientjes
2009-04-27  6:33               ` Zeno Davatz
2009-04-27  8:32                 ` David Rientjes
2009-04-27  8:53                   ` Zeno Davatz
2009-04-27 12:03                     ` Zeno Davatz
2009-04-27 13:35               ` Greg Stark
2009-04-27 13:39                 ` Zeno Davatz
2009-04-27 14:07                   ` Zeno Davatz [this message]
2009-04-27 14:48                 ` Zeno Davatz
2009-04-24 18:24   ` Zeno Davatz

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