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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