ANNOUNCEMENT: NSD 1.3.0 alpha 1

Michael Richardson mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca
Tue Sep 23 05:06:33 UTC 2003


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>>>>> "Miek" == Miek Gieben <miekg at atoom.net> writes:
    >> Okay, got that.  But, a *Linux* system in default overcommit mode
    >> might kill NSD off randomly. (or other processes) Solaris does
    >> different things.

    Miek> if you mean the OOM killer, upgrade to linux 2.4.23-pre5. A
    Miek> previous prepatch removed the OOM killer from the stable linux
    Miek> tree.

  Wow? someone saw the light?
  I run with:

marajade-[~] mcr 1185 %cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory 
3

  If I don't run it, then the nightly find when I have UFS partitions
mounted usually kills every process on my laptop.

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