On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Jesse Pollard wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
>>Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> said:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>> Without overcommit:
>>> You can support 100 simultaneous connections, with full saturation of
>>> each server, with no failures.
>>>
>>> Result: happy customers, happy management, maybe even a raise.
>>
>>Management nagging about supporting more pages, worried by waste of several
>>Gb of disk that has never, ever been touched. System is sluggish, needs
>>constant tweaking of "resource allocation quotas" as applications crash,
>>even there are resources available. Seriously consider firing inept
>>sysadmin.
>
>Disk space is cheap.
And completely orthogonal to overcommit. You put the same disk space on
the overcommitted machine and it will work fine.
>System is no more sluggish than currently, and is much more reliable.
Yes, because you added more memory.
The correct solution to OOM situations is not to turn off overcommit. The
correct solution is to put more memory in the machine.
Dave
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