On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Mark Ivey wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm running RedHat 6.0 on a pentium 200 w/ 32 mb of ram and 60 mb of
>swap space. The other day I was writing a program for a school assignment
>that basically makes a list of random numbers and then sorts them. I told
>it to run with a size of 5 million, and then I watched as it used up all
>my swap space (I had xosview open) and my system stopped responding. I
>tried switching out of X to one of the consoles, it wouldn't respond. I
>tried telneting in to the machine, it wouldn't bring up the login prompt.
>Do I have something set up wrong, or is it really this easy crash linux?
>I wasn't logged in as root, and I had just compiled the program so it
>shouldn't have been suid. What am I missing?
>
>-Mark-
>
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There are two things you can do to help minimize this problem:
First check if /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory has a 0 by:
cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
The seccond is to set higher values to freepages min/low/high
You can read all about it at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt
HTH
Agustin
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