On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:09:58PM -0500, Jay Kline wrote: > On a server I admin there is a custom application that likes to consume large > ammounts of memory. Apparently, there are no checks within the application > when it allocates memory because it seems to kill the box occationally. the > kernel logger says it ran out of memory, then eventully the box stops > responding, except to pings. I need some suggestions for this, we cant throw > more memory at the box, but that wont solve the problem (this app WILL > consume anything you give it). I know there must be some way to limit a > process's memory usage- at least enough to protect the kernel better. We > have like 6 gig's of swap partitions thrown at it right now, but I am fairly > certain that it dosnt use much, if any, of it. I know its almost a flame war, > but in the situation where you have one app consuming most of the memory, > what is the best setup with swap? $LINUX_SRC/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting. It works on 2.5.x, AC kernels, and RHAS. florin -- "NT is to UNIX what a doughnut is to a particle accelerator." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030513/d5617391/attachment.pgp