Hi, On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, C Hennessy wrote:
I have a similar problem. However with 2.2.7 I never seemed to have a problem with virtual memory ( or if I did it was usually the offending process which died as it ran out of memory ).
2.2.7 did not yet include this patch.
I have 128 MB of RAM and 128 MB of swap. I think that this should be enough.
This depends on your application :) Maybe it is running wild and is allocating too much memory due to an error (possible Y2K problem) or memory hole?
Is it possible to tell the kernel either : not to kill specific processes; or to disable this functionality ?
No, there is nothing to tune. If you do not need this feature, you will have to remove this patch. However, it will be part of the official 2.2.14 kernel; Alan Cox has already added Andrea's patches to the 2.2.14pre kernels already. If the kernel runs oom (out of memory), it will kill the offending process (the process trying to allocate additional memory). A vanilla kernel will just lock up. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/