From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kswapd flaw
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:58:15 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050628095815.GA13464@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42C164E1.6000506@grupopie.com>
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:55:29PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> Al Boldi wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:04:08PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> >
> >>In 2.4.31 kswapd starts paging during OOMs even w/o swap enabled.
> >>
> >>Is there a way to fix/disable this behaviour?
> >
> >
> >Marcelo,
> >
> >Kswapd starts evicting processes to fullfil a malloc, when it should just
> >deny it because there is no swap.
>
> I think what you really want is to adjust your "overcommit" settings.
>
> See: "Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting"
Al,
You should set overcommit accordingly as Paulo mentions.
You might also want to disable the OOM killer (CONFIG_OOM_KILLER).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-27 20:04 Kswapd flaw Al Boldi
2005-06-27 15:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-28 6:37 ` Al Boldi
2005-06-28 8:18 ` Michal Schmidt
2005-06-28 9:08 ` Al Boldi
2005-06-28 9:54 ` Michal Schmidt
2005-06-28 10:50 ` Nix
2005-06-28 11:47 ` Al Boldi
2005-06-28 12:50 ` Nix
2005-06-28 13:52 ` Al Boldi
2005-06-28 14:37 ` Nix
2005-06-28 15:35 ` Al Boldi
2005-06-28 16:25 ` Nix
2005-06-28 18:15 ` Helge Hafting
2005-06-28 14:55 ` Paulo Marques
2005-06-28 9:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2005-06-28 16:43 ` Al Boldi
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[not found] ` <4koWT-5Iy-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-06-28 14:28 ` Robert Hancock
[not found] <20050628143932.GA14545@logos.cnet>
2005-06-29 4:53 ` Al Boldi
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