From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness triggers OOM killer under 2.6.14.
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:05:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4366E99D.7070606@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53vpu-s9-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
Rob Landley wrote:
> Under 2.6.14 (UML), I have a workload that runs with 64 megs ram and 256 megs
> swap space. It completes (albeit swapping like mad) with swappiness at the
> default 60, but if I set it to 0 the OOM killer kicks in and the script
> aborts.
You should get some debugging output in dmesg when the OOM killer kicks
in, can you post this?
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2005-11-01 4:05 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-11-01 8:37 ` echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness triggers OOM killer under 2.6.14 Rob Landley
2005-11-02 7:32 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-02 19:13 ` Rob Landley
[not found] <53VDs-5r1-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <53VDs-5r1-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <5400l-3iY-37@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-11-02 0:07 ` Robert Hancock
2005-11-02 22:24 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-31 0:09 Rob Landley
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