On Friday 13 June 2003 15:29, Lamar Owen wrote: > It is or was a Linux kernel problem. The 2.2 kernel required double swap > space, even though it wasn't well documented. Early 2.4 kernels also > required double swap space, and it was better documented. Current Red Hat > 2.4 kernels, I'm not sure which VM system is in use. The old VM certainly > DID require double physical memory swap space.
After consulting with some kernel gurus, you can upgrade to a straight Alan Cox (-ac) kernel and turn off overcommits to cause it to fail the allocation instead of blowing processes out at random when the overcommit bites. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend