[snip]
> I can't find any more useful info than that. I think it's unlikely that I
> was out of both swap and RAM so I'd guess the VM balancing is not perfect.
>
> If anyone has any hints as to how to tune the options in /proc/sys/vm to
> prevent the problem I'd be interested to hear about it. Either that or
> I'll throw some more RAM at the problem to make it go away ;)
I haven't seen my mail echo back from the list yet so perhaps this has
been discussed to death already but there seem to be some useful hints in
Documentation/memory-tuning.txt
In particular:
[begin quote]
If "out of memory" errors sometimes occur, or if your machine does lots
of networking, increasing min_free_pages to 64 or more may be a good
idea.
free_pages_low should probably be about double of min_free_pages.
[end quote]
I think I'll try fiddling with this and see if the problems go away.
Cheers,
--Craig
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