From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Horatiu N Subject: qemu-kvm swapping even though vm.swappiness = 0 Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 12:21:09 +0300 Message-ID: <537F1305.8040703@ddhosted.com> References: <537F104A.1030805@ddhosted.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from pc142.efx.ro ([89.45.202.142]:42147 "EHLO smtp.ddhosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752044AbaEWJVM (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2014 05:21:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <537F104A.1030805@ddhosted.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: on a 64gb ram node with 1gb swap i have swappiness=0 but still i see qemu-kvm swapping and when the swap fills (the kernel?) kills the pids | PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP COMMAND 7394 qemu 20 0 1447m 734m 5024 S 0.7 1.1 6:20.96 28m qemu-kvm 8028 qemu 20 0 1438m 725m 4984 S 0.3 1.1 6:30.10 26m qemu-kvm 12901 qemu 20 0 1430m 717m 4984 S 0.3 1.1 9:09.98 24m qemu-kvm 4873 qemu 20 0 1443m 723m 4984 S 0.3 1.1 6:25.04 23m qemu-kvm 13449 qemu 20 0 1431m 719m 5012 S 0.3 1.1 7:06.87 22m qemu-kvm 14323 qemu 20 0 1423m 713m 4984 S 0.3 1.1 7:09.72 22m qemu-kvm 5928 qemu 20 0 1425m 729m 4984 S 0.3 1.1 8:49.56 22m qemu-kvm 4566 qemu 20 0 1427m 718m 5024 S 0.7 1.1 6:18.85 21m qemu-kvm 10016 qemu 20 0 1440m 734m 4984 S 0.3 1.1 8:47.30 20m qemu-kvm 5472 qemu 20 0 1448m 738m 4968 S 0.0 1.1 6:09.98 20m qemu-kvm 11653 qemu 20 0 1441m 736m 4984 S 0.7 1.1 7:01.75 19m qemu-kvm 11294 qemu 20 0 1418m 696m 5020 S 0.3 1.1 6:44.25 19m qemu-kvm that's a top Op[enter] [root@node ~]# sysctl vm.swappiness vm.swappiness = 0 [root@node ~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 64394 35944 28450 0 9531 6564 -/+ buffers/cache: 19848 44545 Swap: 1021 575 446 :( sad panda. |