VM - is "reserved memory for root" possible (in case of a leak)?
From: Tomasz Chmielewski
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 02:38:47 EST
Hello,
Short nature of a problem:
Recently I was playing with Apache2 as a proxy + mod_clamav as a virus
scanner, put some load to it, and in a short time hanged the machine
(actually, it was short of memory, and it stopped to respond - in logs I
saw VM was killing some other processes, unfortunately not Apache).
As I could reach the machine only remotely, it was no wonder I run into
troubles...
Sounds familiar?
Solution?
I was thinking, if there is something like:
"reserved_min_memory_for_root = 10M"
"reserved_min_memory_processes = /usr/sbin/sshd, /usr/sbin/pppd, etc.etc"
Which would just give that memory for those processes "once and for
all", and thus, saving trouble in case of a memory leak, uncontrolled
process, or similar.
I know it would be tricky to implement it, because the question arises,
what happens if we have no memory left, and these
"reserved_min_memory_processes" begin to grow?
But I think it would be something like a comparison:
ulimit vs this "reserved_min_memory_for_root", and
quota vs -m option from mke2fs.
Is there something like it already in the kernel?
It would be similar to mke2fs for the filesystem:
# man mke2fs
-m reserved-blocks-percentage
Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved
for the
super-user. This value defaults to 5%
Regards,
Tomasz Chmielewski
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