Re: Memory

["Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@codegnome.org>]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:10:51PM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:

> What happens when debian is out of memory?  Does it freeze?  Is there
> any trace of memory glut in log files?

It depends. In general, you will either see disk thrashing as swap is
constantly accessed, or the oom-killer will start terminating candidate
processes.

Unless you're running sar or similar, you won't get much info from your
log files about this sort of thing. Running Apache on a 256MB box
without some low-memory tweaks is a great way to experience this sort of
thing first-hand. :)

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