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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:55:29 +0100
From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
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Subject: Re: Kswapd flaw
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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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