Out of Memory - continued

[Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com]

I have had a play around with the Overcommit_memory settings and
Overcommit_ratio settings and i am still getting "Out of Memory - killed
process" errors. One thing i did notice was the errors are appearing on our
old supermicro machines only, we also have HP Dl360 machines that are
working fine. I have compared the top command on both machines as per text
below when the machines have just been rebooted and the output of the
supermicro machines show "Swap 0K av". Does this mean that for some reason
it is not allocating any swap space at all, if so how to change this to
reflect the other Dl360 machines. Any help would be much appreciated.


DL360 - machine

49 processes: 48 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
           total    0.4%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.6%  199.0%
           cpu00    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%  100.0%
           cpu01    0.4%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.6%   99.0%
Mem:  2054444k av,  304944k used, 1749500k free,       0k shrd,   75028k
buff
       143064k active,              17600k inactive
Swap: 2047992k av,       0k used, 2047992k free                   78940k
cached

SuperMicro - machine ( with errors)

processes: 51 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
           total    0.0%    0.0%    0.2%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%  199.8%
           cpu00    0.0%    0.0%    0.2%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%   99.8%
           cpu01    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%  100.0%
Mem:  2054952k av,   96040k used, 1958912k free,       0k shrd,    7952k
buff
        64136k active,               5616k inactive
Swap:       0k av,       0k used,       0k free                   43128k
cached

Regards

Andrew Bridgeman

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