[qtmoko] what sets up the kernel killing machine?

Jim Morris ml at e4net.com
Wed Sep 23 11:39:12 CEST 2009


Jim Morris wrote:
> Jim Morris wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I added a swap file to my qtmoko v11 setup, but somethign inthe kernel still tries to kill stuff 
>> off, like qdsync (why is that running anyway?) and mediaserver.
>>
>> So I suspect that there is a setting somewhere that tells something to look for processes to kill 
>> off if memory gets short, but I cannot find it anywhere.
>>
>> With swap enabled I should be bale to disable that feature.
>>
>> While I'm at it I'd also like to stop qdsync from running, so any ideas are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jim
>>
> 
> I think the answer maybe...
> 
>  > echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
> 
> 

Nope it still started killing off processes, I wonder if it is the kernel oom or the qtopia oom?

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