linux-kernel - Re: coping with swap-exhaustion in 2.4.33-4

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Date:	Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:36:52 +0100
From:	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>
To:	Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@...il.com>
Cc:	Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: coping with swap-exhaustion in 2.4.33-4

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 14:30 +0200, Yakov Lerner wrote:
>     Where can I read anything about how kernel is supposed to
> react to the 'swap-full' condition ? We have troubles on the
> production machine which routinely arrives to the swap-full state
> no matter how I increase the swap, because user proceses multi-fork
> and then want to allocate a lot of virtual memory.

Did you disable memory overcommit ?

	Xav

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