System crashing when swap hits 25%
Simon Slater
pyevet at aapt.net.au
Mon Mar 10 23:34:49 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 18:51 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> I suggest setting vm.overcommit_memory=2 with sysctl to turn on
> explicit
> overcommit control, and then try changing the value of
> vm.overcommit_ratio to see if that changes where your system dies.
>
I've never come across these variables/commands before, so I'll go
slowly here.
> Also, is the system actually crashing, or does it just get swaplocked
> and hang indefinitely when swap usage reaches 25%? See if you can
> get
> sysrq-m and sysrq-t data out of the system. You'll want to set
> kernel.sysrq=1 first.
Where do I find these?
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Regards
Simon
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