Re: out of memory errors

Hi,

On 16/06/2014 14:15, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2014-06-16 13:56:23 +0100, Bruce McAlister wrote:
>> [1] 3 x ESX VM's
>> [a] 8 vCPU's each
>> [b] 16GB memory each
>> # Dont hand out more memory than neccesary
>> vm.overcommit_memory = 2
> So you haven't tune overcommit_ratio at all? Can you show
> /proc/meminfo's contents?
> My guess is that the CommitLimit is too low...
>

No I have not tune overcommit_ratio.

Below is the /proc/meminfo contents. One note though, the database is
currently not running on this node, just in case i need to make some
changes that require a restart.

[root(at)bfievdb01 heartbeat]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 16333652 kB
MemFree: 2928544 kB
Buffers: 197216 kB
Cached: 1884032 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 4638780 kB
Inactive: 1403676 kB
Active(anon): 4006088 kB
Inactive(anon): 7120 kB
Active(file): 632692 kB
Inactive(file): 1396556 kB
Unevictable: 65004 kB
Mlocked: 56828 kB
SwapTotal: 22015984 kB
SwapFree: 22015984 kB
Dirty: 3616 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 4026228 kB
Mapped: 82408 kB
Shmem: 45352 kB
Slab: 197052 kB
SReclaimable: 106804 kB
SUnreclaim: 90248 kB
KernelStack: 4000 kB
PageTables: 15172 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 30182808 kB
Committed_AS: 4342644 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 7004496 kB
VmallocChunk: 34352726816 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 3868672 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
DirectMap4k: 10240 kB
DirectMap2M: 16766976 kB

Thanks
Bruce