[Gluster-users] [EXT] OOM kills gluster process

[Diego Zuccato]

Il 21/04/21 13:04, Stefan Solbrig ha scritto:

Tks for answering.

> You could also consider disabling overcommitting memory: /etc/sysctl.d/<whatever>:
> vm.overcommit_memory = 2
> vm.overcommit_ratio = 100
> (See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting)
Interesting idea, but a bit of swapping is not too bad.

> This way, If users allocate too much memory, they get an error upon allocation.
> This should limit the cases where the oom killer needs to take action.
> however, it has other side effects, like killing user programs that overcommit
> by default. (Or user programs that fork() a lot.)
Actually the fork()-intensive programs are the ones that most likely are
behaving badly... I'll have to dig deeper.

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