From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:08:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa7a41cd4b48d7e150ebd5799f9c0240@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B66FCA.3040308@lanl.gov>
i typically run with 128MB real memory and 750MB of swap *used*
(out of 4G). the oom killer hasn't been up on murder charges on my
machine yet.
- erik
On Thu Jul 13 11:12:07 CDT 2006, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> Charles Forsyth wrote:
>
> >
> > Linux apparently takes the Atlas approach and thrashes on demand.
> >
>
> until it starts killing random processes. Usually the wrong one. But,
> hey, heuristics, right?
>
> I think I prefer 'no swap and panic' to 'kill random processes'. I can't
> differentiate between OOM killer and uncorrectable ECC errors.
>
> Of course, the kill on no memory guck is now appearing in other places:
> I can't build the myrinet tools on my machine any more, as this symbol
> is not found:
> /lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_out_of_memory@GLIBC_PRIVATE'
>
> oh yea. I'm loving those versioned symbols more than ever.
>
> ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-13 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-13 13:52 Brantley Coile
2006-07-13 14:06 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-07-13 16:07 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-13 16:08 ` quanstro [this message]
2006-07-14 11:10 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-14 11:54 ` quanstro
2006-07-14 19:40 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-08-07 17:49 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-08-07 18:13 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-13 16:09 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-13 16:07 ` quanstro
2006-07-13 17:05 ` David Leimbach
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