> > > I think I'm the only one with that problem... and I can't figure out > > > what's wrong :( > > > > How's your swapfile size? Maybe your system doesn't do overcommits, thus > > there must be enough physical ram + swapfile for all virtual allocations. > > That'd be the only thing that I could think of, although whether > > overcommits can be disabled and so on I don't know. So I might be just > > rambling insanely ;-) > > overcommitting is default and I knew that there was a way top turn it off, > so a find /proc -name "*commit*" found: > > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory > > Oh wait, it seems it's not default: > > $ cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory > 0
Nevertheless I acknowledge that a compounding issue is VM fragmentation of a process. Redoing the prelink & friends would be one way to attack that. Another issue is how safe it really is to allow overcommits. They are off on my FC4 system too. Cheers, Kuba
