On Thursday 21 April 2005 03:12 pm, Andreas Philipp wrote:
Anders:
El Jue 14 Abr 2005 22:17, Anders Johansson escribió:
You could try turning off memory overcommitting.
echo "2" > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
This will force the system to return an out of memory error when a process tries to allocate memory the system doesn't have
Since my last kernel update (2.4.20-131 on 8.2, installed 2005-03-26) I have been experimenting almost daily system hangs during high memory commitment. One week ago I did as you recommended to Bruce and my current system uptime is 7 days.
Thank you very much for your helpful advice, I would never have found out on my own. -- Dear Andreas ,
I would also suggest that you test your physical memory using the memory testing app that is shipped on your SUSE install CD or DVD called MEMTEST86. Shutdown the sys and boot from CD or DVD 1 and choose MEMTEST. You may have to let it run several hours. MEMTEST had found bad memory for me many times and the vendors trust it's reports. PeterB -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 9.1 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Currently listening to Joseph Campbell http://www.jcf.org/ Free D/Ls after free registration --