Re: coping with swap-exhaustion in 2.4.33-4

[Xavier Bestel]

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 14:30 +0200, Yakov Lerner wrote:
>     Where can I read anything about how kernel is supposed to
> react to the 'swap-full' condition ? We have troubles on the
> production machine which routinely arrives to the swap-full state
> no matter how I increase the swap, because user proceses multi-fork
> and then want to allocate a lot of virtual memory.

Did you disable memory overcommit ?

	Xav

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