Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:43:40 +0100 | From | Jim MacBaine <> | Subject | Re: /proc/sys/vm/swappiness == 0 makes OOM killer go beserk |
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On 1/13/06, Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
It _would_ be ok if swappiness == 0 would mean that the kernel will not swap at all. That's not the case. Even without an excessive use of tmpfs the kernel found ~250 MB of unused memory which it swapped out during the last days with swappiness == 0.
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