From: "Valentin Vidić" <vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr>
To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Alternate method of running swapon?
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 21:28:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200108202820.GD8238@valentin-vidic.from.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8n8kQmh0fsvcwpL7=SMYTf40y9k-aFprbtxgNkDA-0Jmw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 03:08:42PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> It looks like this is coming from the OpenVZ folks. They feel a
> swapfile would negatively impact performance, so it is disabled.
Yep, since this is not a full VM but rather a container, there is
not much to do other than buying a bigger VPS.
> (I'm not sure how a DoS is considered a good result, given an OOM kill
> just about always knocks out MySQL).
Swap in a way converts memory access into disk IO. And since a lot of disk
IO can harm all services running on the host, for the operator it is safer
to OOM kill one process and save all the others :)
--
Valentin
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-08 18:09 Alternate method of running swapon? Jeffrey Walton
2020-01-08 18:23 ` Valentin Vidić
2020-01-08 18:33 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-01-08 18:42 ` Valentin Vidić
2020-01-08 20:08 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-01-08 20:28 ` Valentin Vidić [this message]
2020-01-08 18:26 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2020-01-08 22:23 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-01-08 18:31 ` Greg KH
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