From: HvR <hvr...@my...> - 2003-03-07 21:58:31
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how do you turn off the oom killer? On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 12:43, David Cutler wrote: > Hi All, > > This is somewhere between a question and suggestion.... > > Has anyone had any success getting openMosix.2.4.19.x or > 2.4.20-2 to be stable under huge job load, huge memory load > without disabling the oom killer? > > I know that I haven't. With the oom killer turned on, I can pretty > dependably bring down my "head" node, by simply starting a > bunch of jobs that together use way more memory than the > head node has... both physical and swap. > > With the oom killer turned off, things are much more stable. > I can still bring things to a miserable crawl, which resembles a > full crash, and might try my patience to the point where I just > reboot, but it is much, much harder to do with oom killer disabled. > > Is the current recommendation/default to always disable > the oom killer? If not, why not? > > Cheers, > dave > > David J. Cutler, Ph. D. > Institute of Genetic Medicine > Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine > 600 N. Wolfe Street > Jefferson Street Building, Room 2-120 > Baltimore, MD 21287 > lab# (410) 502-7534 > fax# (410) 502-7544 > email: dc...@jh... > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger > for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and > disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX > and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com > _______________________________________________ > Openmosix-devel mailing list > Ope...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openmosix-devel |