From: Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>
To: Jim MacBaine <jmacbaine@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/sys/vm/swappiness == 0 makes OOM killer go beserk
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:32:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <728201270601130832h37eae980hc4e0d3de7522c81e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3afbacad0601130755x507047eeqfdcfb1e54a163cdd@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/13/06, Jim MacBaine <jmacbaine@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the OOM killer just killed some of my processes while the system still
> had >2.5 GB of free swap. I'm running vanilla 2.6.15 on my desktop.
> The machine is a single Athlon64, 1 GB RAM, 3 GB swap, x86_64 kernel,
This is ok. When the swappiness variable is set to zero kernel does
not try to swap out processes. So once all memory is used up by
processes it can not free up memory by swapping and hence had to kill
process.
Regards
Ram Gupta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-13 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-13 15:55 /proc/sys/vm/swappiness == 0 makes OOM killer go beserk Jim MacBaine
2006-01-13 16:32 ` Ram Gupta [this message]
2006-01-13 16:43 ` Jim MacBaine
2006-01-13 18:04 ` Ram Gupta
[not found] <5uzvD-8tr-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-01-14 11:02 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2006-01-14 13:53 ` Jim MacBaine
2006-01-14 15:45 ` Denis Vlasenko
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