On 11/18/05, Tushar Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> You can create tmpfs and fill it and then observe the effects on
> processes running out of mem .
>
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3.html
Probably this link will interest many...
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nks/fi
Hi,
You can create tmpfs and fill it and then observe the effects on
processes running out of mem .
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3.html
Regards
Tushar Shah
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On Thursday 17 November 2005 22:17, Mayank Jain wrote:
[snip]
> What about doing this on per-application basis.
> The above method would limit every app to the specified number...
>
> Say, I want to limit Open Office to 100megs...?
You can try playing with the ulimit command, or coerce a memory
p
On 11/17/05, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By default the kernel also overcommits on memory allocations by apps. To turn
> this off this should probably work:
>
> echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
> echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio
>
> (not 100% certain about this, pl
On Thursday 17 November 2005 18:16, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
[snip]
> Once it runs out of physical memory new request for memory would result
> in swap usage. If you manage to use both the physical memory and the
> SWAP the OS will return a error.
By default the kernel also overcommits on memor
On 11/17/05, Mayank Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I wonder how apps like X, GDM, KDE/Gnome, etc would react to
> "insufficient memory" problems...
>
> Like if before starting these heavy services/apps, if we could limit
> the physical memory to say... "100 megs" on a system & then see how do
--- Tushar Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > & specially, it would be interesting to see how they react to low
> mem
> > conditions, do they crash or exit gracefully or something else...
> Why shud it crash ? I guess such a situation would cause lots of
> page
> swapping . Better a
Hi,
> & specially, it would be interesting to see how they react to low mem
> conditions, do they crash or exit gracefully or something else...
Why shud it crash ? I guess such a situation would cause lots of page
swapping . Better answer can come from some who knows abt linux
memory management
Hi :-)
Was just replying to Ram's message when this idea struck...
I wonder how apps like X, GDM, KDE/Gnome, etc would react to
"insufficient memory" problems...
Like if before starting these heavy services/apps, if we could limit
the physical memory to say... "100 megs" on a system & then see h
