From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: "'Marcelo Tosatti'" <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kswapd flaw
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:55:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42C164E1.6000506@grupopie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506280637.JAA07333@raad.intranet>
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"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 14:57 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 [this message]
2005-06-28 9:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-28 16:43 ` Al Boldi
[not found] <4knRo-4Li-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[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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