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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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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-11-01  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <53vpu-s9-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
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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