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kloczek wrote:
> Some data showed by top command looks like completly trashed.
> Fragment from top output:
>
> Mem: 2075784k total, 2053352k used, 22432k free, 19260k buffers
> Swap: 2096472k total, 136k used, 2096336k free, 1335080k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP nFLT
> WCHAN COMMAND 14515 mysql 20 0 1837m 563m 4132 S 39 27.8
> 27:14.20 1.2g 18 - mysqld
>
> How it is possible that swap ussage is 136k and swapped out portion of (in
> this case) mysqld process is 1.2g ?

Welcome to OverCommit, aka OOM-nirvana.

Try this:
# echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio

But make sure you have enough swap.


Thanks!

--
Al

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