Re: OOM (HighMem) on linux 2.6.24.2

[Peter Zijlstra]

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.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/