Answer by Craig Constantine for Prevent Linux's OOM from killing apache on...
You can also change the Virtual Memory over commit behaviour. For example, you can change the value of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to '2' -- meaning do NOT overcommit memory. (Do not just change...
View ArticleAnswer by Rolf for Prevent Linux's OOM from killing apache on our webserver
It says here that you can set a OOM_DISABLE "flag" on a process: http://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer
View ArticleAnswer by Kamil Kisiel for Prevent Linux's OOM from killing apache on our...
The OOMKiller is configurable to an extent. After you have launched a process you can set the value of /proc/<pid>/oom_adj to a negative integer. This will affect the affinity of OOMKiller...
View ArticleAnswer by jlintz for Prevent Linux's OOM from killing apache on our webserver
It doesn't sound like you are addressing the root cause of the issue by actually debugging why this cron job is using up so much memory. You can try setting this option echo 1 >...
View ArticleAnswer by Douglas Leeder for Prevent Linux's OOM from killing apache on our...
Short answer: No, the OOM-killer is not configurable, and there is/has been resistance to changing that. Just a few ideas off the top of my head: Increase swap space - if the scripts are 32-bit, then...
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We have a debian linux webserver. It's just running apache2. Our mysql server is on another host. However we sometimes run cron tasks on the webserver to do regular tasks. However recently one of the...
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