Re: slapd crashes with ch_realloc of X bytes failed

2013/1/12 Meike Stone meike.stone@googlemail.com:

What I see, that slapd had reserved "Total: 7350688K" (overcommitted?), but only referenced 4900700K. Why does slapd reserve so much memory and use it not? Because of this, I changed the default values for memory overcomittment

from: vm.overcommit_memory = 0 (guess, default) vm.overcommit_ratio = 50

to: vm.overcommit_memory=2 (strict overcommit) vm.overcommit_ratio=100

but it crashed again (ch_malloc of 34545 bytes failed): .

I was wondering, why it crashed in spite of overcommitting .

The solution sometimes is simple, but "far away" ;-) ...: ~# ulimit -v 7353440

Thanks Meike